black screen kali linux 2020.2 on virtualbox

[UrekMazino]

hello , I'm still a beginner and wanted to start preparing for linux+ , so I decided to set kali linux 2020.2 on vmware 5.2.44 , I got the screen to login , but after login I got only one black screen without anything in , hope you can propose some sollutions for me , thank you

[dash]

Your title says Virtualbox, but your message says VMware.

Anyway, I had a similar issue on Virtualbox 6.1, with both 2020.2 and 2020.3 Kali installations. In both cases, I found that the initial installation worked fine. I was able to login to the desktop. I then performed an apt update / apt upgrade. After rebooting, I was prompted with the GUI login. After logging in, I just see a black screen. Rebooting didn't help.

I have a fix that worked for me.

After logging in to the black screen, I checked the VM runtime settings, I could see that an older Virtualbox Guest Additions had been installed. Note that I had not manually installed any Guest Additions myself.

So, this is what I did:

• Press Ctrl + Alt + F2, to switch to tty2 console. This isn't graphical, so it works.
• sudo apt install -y dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-$(uname -r)
• sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
• sudo /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Then I restarted. After reboot, I could login to the graphical environment.

In case it helps, here's some of my other VM configuration items:

• System: 2 vCPUs, 5GB RAM, Boot: Optical + HD, PAE/NX enabled
• Display: 128MB, VMSVGA, 3D Acceleration is NOT enabled.
• Storage: 50GB dynamic

[mtw]

To solve this issue I selected an older kernel version from the boot loader.
I was then able to log in.
Ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade.
Reboot after upgrade.