After importing the .ova file of the latest Linux Kali release (found here) into VirtualBox, and successfully booting into the OS from GRUB, I'm greeted with a black screen and a static (non-blinking) cursor:
The VirtualBox will not respond to any input what-so-ever, neither keyboard strokes nor mouse clicks.
Several people have had this problem over the years, but none of the suggested solutions have worked for me. These solutions include:
- Setting the VirtualBox view to Auto-scale,
- Disabling 3D-acceleration (this was disabled by default), and
- Adding
nomodesetto the Grub command line (as suggested here).
How do I solve this?