Bug: almalinux 10.0 vm boot hangs on blank screen, no GUI login greeter

Bug: almalinux 10.0 vm boot hangs on blank screen, no GUI login greeter

almalinux 10.0 vm on virtualbox 7.1.8 and on qemu-kvm 9.2.3 , both boot hangs on blank screen, no GUI login greeter. so cannot login from the console.

After fresh install , almalinux 10.0 vm show GUI login greeter. After an packages upgrade , cannot boot into GUI login greeter any more.

l@f42x:~$ uname -a
Linux f42x.localdomain 6.14.8-300.fc42.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May 22 19:26:02 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
l@f42x:~$ virtualbox --help
Oracle VirtualBox Manager v7.1.8
Copyright (C) 2005-2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates

No special options.

If you are looking for --startvm and related options, you need to use VirtualBoxVM.
l@f42x:~$ qemu-kvm -version
QEMU emulator version 9.2.3 (qemu-9.2.3-1.fc42)
Copyright (c) 2003-2024 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
l@f42x:~$

I seem to remember that I had to add “nomodeset” to the kernel options when I tried RHEL 10 Beta in a KVM virtual machine. Might have been for the installer but you could try adding it.