Re: GUI-Login on bookworm-VM in a cloud
On Friday, 05-07-2024 at 20:46 Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > What video device does your VM use? Maybe it uses real hardware, or does it use a virtual device like QLX or Virtio? I have been using virtio. I also tried QLX and it works.
>
> It is the qemu vga driver. I already tried qemu virtio and qemu vmware
> drivers, they have the same problem as the vga driver: No sddm GUI
> login screen.
>
> > > I can now tell that the problem is introduced when upgrading the
> > > following packages from bullseye to their bookworm versions:
> >
> > Did you upgrade your full distribution or only these files?
> >
> > I would never consider using packages from a different Debian version. I guess people do this? But liking stability, it is not something I would do.
>
> Normally, I also do not do that. As I wrote, the GUI login was shown in
> a bullseye VM (no packages from other origins), but it is not shown in
> a bookworm VM (no packages from other origins). So, I upgraded a
> bullseye VM step by step to find out where exactly the problem is and I
> can tell now, that before upgrading
>
> libglx-mesa0 libx11-xcb1 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libdrm-common
> libglapi-mesa libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm2 libegl-mesa0 libx11-6
> libwayland-client0
> >
>
> the GUI login was shown and after upgrading these packages, the GUI
> login was not shown.
>
> > I did a test, building a Bullseye VM and then totally upgrading to
> > Bookworm and had no issues.
>
> The same result for me after directly installing bookworm with virt-
> manager. Obviously, there is a significant difference between a VM in
> OpenNebula and a VM with the same software in virt-manager ...
Are you able to try Virt-Manager with your original VM that you are having issues with? If your VM is a KVM VM, then you should not need to install anything on the VM.
I might give setting up OpenNebula to see if I can replicate the issue. A good excuse for me to try an installation.
George.
>
> Regards
> Christoph
>
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