Hello Daniel, >OK, I also opened a bug report there:
wonderful >and I'll send a reply there linking to this discussion. thanks >Could you add your own feedback there about what is expected to maximize >the chances that the display appears correctly on first boot into a >freshly built stretch system? Or does it only depend on the patching of >Virtualbox and there is nothing that could be done in xorg or wayland to >work around this seamlessly? yes, patch the driver that comes with Debian, instead of using the virtualbox one :) (or seed the live with the virtualbox-guest-* stuff, you wouldn't be the first one https://github.com/fedelibre/LilyDev/commit/8328fa6fdf595c136c3039186b63ab95db62aa52 >In those cases where the display doesn't work, is there anything that >can be done to give more meaningful feedback? The flashing screen isn't >great. this is not something virtualbox can fix, because it isn't installed :p >Should those links go into bug reports against the relevant packages so >this can be followed through? > I replied there too :) G.