If I don’t disturb the kernel when booting, I don’t end up in the GUI, just have the boot animation forever. No further reaction, neither to function keys, nor mouse or keyboard.
If F12 is pressed several times during boot, the kernel boot log becomes visible. The screen flips several times, but ends up in xfce. After that everything is normal
I tried to simulate a “standard Manjaro installation” as close as possible to someone doing this in real life on hardware (where UEFI is standard today)
So I would get grub in the EFI partition instead of the bootloader or somewhere else.
For what it is worth, I have the same requirement as Andreas and am using libvirt/qemu to build a virtual with UEFI. I’ve found this works reliably and is a single option in the settings when creating a new VM using Virtual Machine Manager. (I try/test config changes before changing the config on my host, and main, system)
I have been using UEFI with my VMs in VMWare and Virtualbox the last… 2 years? And everything has been fine. In VMWare is the default for Win guests.
I had an issue with a Manjaro XFCE virtualbox VM ( Manjaro XFCE Unstable host) yesterday. Due to the repositories changeover, I think. The system wants to upgrade packages that I know are in the official repositories to the AUR version(s). An example is menulibre, where it wants to install the same package with the epoch naming format. I didn’t want a bunch of AUR packages as substitutes, so I switched to Unstable. After I updated to Unstable, I couldn’t get scaling to work as it did before and I was seeing Virtualbox errors during boot and “stopping vboxadd.service” issue on shutdown. This VM is also a efi install that worked fine previously. I didn’t try too hard to fix it as it was just a test VM for my new computer (efi) install which I had never tried before. I have restored the VM from a backup and will stay on Stable until this repositories thing gets sorted out. Currently it needs 405 updates.
To work around the problem, I now saved the VM in the running state. Even if I have to reinstall something, I will avoid every boot as far as possible.
