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I am trying to install a virtual machine running Kali (Formerly backtrack) 1.0.7 In 64 bit. My host machine is a 64 bit MacBook pro running 10.7.5. I am using Oracle VirtualBox version 4.3.12. The install goes perfectly, but after installing it, I get an error when I try to boot. Here is a screen shot.

I hit New virtual machine, selected 64 bit debian and created an 8gig dynamically allocated VDI. In settings, I have selected the correct ISO, and checked PAE/NX under processor. After doing all of this, the live mode works perfectly. Installing, I do everything the default way, and everything goes perfectly. After I finish the installation, it asks me if I want to boot. When I do, I get the above error.

I have done lots of research trying to figure it out, but none of the advice I can find online has helped. Here is everything that someone has said will fix that didn't work for me.

"Enable PAE/NX in settings"

Made absolutely no difference.

"When you get that error, press Ctl+Alt+F1, this will take you to the
terminal tty1, now login as root:

login: root password: "your password"..

Once as root, start the X's: startx

You will get your desktop...This might be a xauthority issue or dbus
issue when loadind, perhaps a daemon.

Try this first and if it works, try doing this: dpkg-reconfigure
gnome-shell, then reboot."

command: startx not found.

Needless to say it didn't bring me to the desktop.

I tried fixing the problem of the startx command not being found by reading through this forum.

I will refer to what they said I should try.

try typing /usr/X11R6/bin/startx

-bash: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx no such file or directory

I tried all of the following commands:

apt-get update

apt-get install x-windows-system

apt-get install x-window-system

All 3 resulted in this

Bus errorackage lists... 1%

Quite simple. 8GB of disk isn't enough for this version of Kali Linux. Use VBoxManage to resize the virtual disk, and GParted to expand the filesystem.

As I was attempting to install Kali 2.0 on VMware I was running into the same issue. Startx was not found, and even upon manually installing it would not work. The one thing that worked for me was to enable virtualization in bios. This is usually a problem that occurs with VirtualBox for me, but this time it resolves the issue with Kali 2.0 on VMware.

My situation was different. I was installing on a new laptop. My configured VM had plenty of memory and disk yet I still had this issue.

What I eventually found was that since it was a new laptop the bios configuration did not have virtualization turned on.

Once I enabled this in the bios my VMs worked as expected.

i had some problems with gnome-shell so i decided to install xfce4

apt-get install kali-defaults kali-root-login desktop-base xfce4 xfce4-places-plugin xfce4-goodies

then

update-alternatives --config x-session-manager

hope it helps

I had a similar issue with VB 5.2.6 on macOS High Sierra. I had to disable the 3D acceleration to get it to boot fully to user login screen. This only happend after installing the extension pack on my Debian guest.

VB 5.2.4 worked fine (with 3D acceleration enabled).

Downgrading to VB 5.2.4, installing the 5.2.4 extensions, and reenabling 3D acceleration fixed the issue for me.

I also had the same problem and I was not able to type password, because nothing happens as I type password. So I downloaded a different version of kali which supports virtual box and it worked for me.
Hope it helps!

this might work.. It did work for me:

# apt-get update

# apt-get install xorg

and then try startx