On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:36 AM Robert McBroom via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote: > Installed CentOS-STREAM 8 ON A QEMU/KVM virtual machine. Initially the > reboot went only to a blank display. Editing the grub menu to give a > terminal boot was successful. > > Succeeded to get a graphical screen with xinit and a terminal to > explore the options. Was able to install xfce for a graphical desktop > but gnome fails. The display managers gdm and sddm both fail with a > blank screen with the mouse cursor. The others lxdm and lighdm don't > show as being available. > > How do I get the session to start properly? I do not see a problem with Fedora 37. The guest seems to run Ok. Perhaps a CentOS forum would be a better place for the question? Or, install Fedora Server and stop putzing around with the antique software RHEL and CentOS provides. My apologies if I mis-parsed something. Jeff

> Am 10.03.2023 um 07:00 schrieb Robert McBroom via users&lt;users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;: > > > On 3/10/23 00:41, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:36 AM Robert McBroom via users >> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote: >>> Installed CentOS-STREAM 8 ON A QEMU/KVM virtual machine. Initially the >>> reboot went only to a blank display. Editing the grub menu to give a >>> terminal boot was successful. >>> >>> Succeeded to get a graphical screen with xinit and a terminal to >>> explore the options. Was able to install xfce for a graphical desktop >>> but gnome fails. The display managers gdm and sddm both fail with a >>> blank screen with the mouse cursor. The others lxdm and lighdm don't >>> show as being available. >>> >>> How do I get the session to start properly? >> I do not see a problem with Fedora 37. The guest seems to run Ok. >> Perhaps a CentOS forum would be a better place for the question? >> >> Or, install Fedora Server and stop putzing around with the antique >> software RHEL and CentOS provides. >> >> My apologies if I mis-parsed something. >> >> Jeff > Fedora 37 is the host Which Fedora variant?

I just installed CentOS Stream cloud following the Fedora Server documentation (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/virtualization/vm-inst...) and it works seamlessly.

What did you do exactly?

Your description is typical of a mismatched console configuration between virtual machine properties and guest OS configuration and independent of Fedora or any specific Fedora release.