I updated windows and reinstalled virtualbox and everything is behaving as expected.
fyi I was also trying Hyper-V and WSL before virtualbox...They were disabled again but who knows? thanks everyone Damian > On 16 Oct 2020, at 14:39, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been running lilypond on many different Linux distros in > VirtualBox for years, and it works splendidly. Perhaps your VM was > misconfigured in some complex way. Do not abandon hope. > > Andrew > >> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 23:43, damianlegassick <damianlegass...@mac.com> >> wrote: >> >> I changed to VMWare and it works as normal >
