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Adrian wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 3:51 pm OK, so the problem is not installing it, the problem is you cannot run it. It's most likely a video driver issue (my first guess). What video driver do you have on the machine you took the image from? Did you install a driver manually (like Nvidia driver) I won't probably be able to help you with this since I know virtually nothing about video drivers but hopefully somebody on the forum can give you some pointers.

That's exactly it. The physical computer uses whatever its video card is which are the drivers and Xorg files that were installed when the OS was installed, VirtualBox uses its own virtual video drivers and Xorg stuff. You'd probably encounter the same issue if you tried to install one computer's snapshot on another computer with different hardware.

JayM wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 9:07 pm

Adrian wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 3:51 pm OK, so the problem is not installing it, the problem is you cannot run it. It's most likely a video driver issue (my first guess). What video driver do you have on the machine you took the image from? Did you install a driver manually (like Nvidia driver) I won't probably be able to help you with this since I know virtually nothing about video drivers but hopefully somebody on the forum can give you some pointers.

That's exactly it. The physical computer uses whatever its video card is which are the drivers and Xorg files that were installed when the OS was installed, VirtualBox uses its own virtual video drivers and Xorg stuff. You'd probably encounter the same issue if you tried to install one computer's snapshot on another computer with different hardware.

Only that's not how is supposed to work, the X config files are excluded so they are not copied to the snapshot, also don't see this problem, I create the monthly snapshots and it can be used on any machine or otherwise many more people would complain...

Um...
from my earlier post, "I made the snapshot of this machine, which works fine."
This may be the heart of the issue - maybe my current install does NOT work fine.
I've been having issues with VPN connectivity and with Thunderbird (big-time) for a couple of weeks.

It all started... hyuk hyuk .. no seriously, I think I've got one of those frak-ups from messing with too many installs and un-installs. Mea culpa, probably all my bad.

So I just going to blow it away and rebuild. Then we'll see how much of the problem was my learning curve.
Back later I hope.

Adrian wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 9:11 pm

JayM wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 9:07 pm

Adrian wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 3:51 pm OK, so the problem is not installing it, the problem is you cannot run it. It's most likely a video driver issue (my first guess). What video driver do you have on the machine you took the image from? Did you install a driver manually (like Nvidia driver) I won't probably be able to help you with this since I know virtually nothing about video drivers but hopefully somebody on the forum can give you some pointers.

That's exactly it. The physical computer uses whatever its video card is which are the drivers and Xorg files that were installed when the OS was installed, VirtualBox uses its own virtual video drivers and Xorg stuff. You'd probably encounter the same issue if you tried to install one computer's snapshot on another computer with different hardware.

Only that's not how is supposed to work, the X config files are excluded so they are not copied to the snapshot, also don't see this problem, I create the monthly snapshots and it can be used on any machine or otherwise many more people would complain...

Oh, really? I didn't know that. That's with a Back in Time snapshot, right? That's pretty cool to know that I can clone my own system onto any other computer, and that it's portable like that, just in case this machine explodes or something.

Back in Time? I'm sure Adrian uses MX's snapshot tool to create the monthly snapshots.....

Back in Time calls its backups "snapshots" too, which confused me. Mind you, it doesn't take much to do that.