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Windows display blank on reboot after Windows 11 ARM preview/24H2 update #6332
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For what it's worth, I didn't have the same problem after updating to |
I did another Insider Preview upgrade and did not have an issue with the display. Will close this for now as perhaps it was something quirky specific to my setup, and I am using Insider Preview builds so it's possible this is specific to that, rather than a UTM issue. Can re-open if others have similar issues. |
Only now I have the same problema as your. Even changing the display option I still have a black screen. I also do not know how to reinstall UTM/Spice guest tools how can I do it? I am sorry for reopening the thread. |
Well you can't reinstall the spice tools until you can actually see the screen and interact with the guest, so need to find a way to fix that first. There could probably be many reasons the display isn't working, this ticket was specifically about it happening as an unexpected side effect of a Window update/upgrade (which hasn't happened to me before or since). |
I noticed the same issue shortly after updating to Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.1252. It might have happened earlier without me noticing since I typically RDP in, but I appreciate the tip that you need to reinstall UTM/Spice guest tools to fix this issue. That worked for me. It's good to know if I lose RDP for some reason, I can still use the UTM display. It might be worth reopening this issue for visibility especially if changing the display option doesn't work around the issue. I found https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1dk7z45/windows_11_vm_on_utm_black_screen_after_software/ before finding this which suggests that Windows updates are causing the UTM display not to function and just show a black screen. I'm glad I was able to fix the issue without reverting the update. |
Interesting - so it isn't/wasn't just me... Since I was on the canary channel, if it's something from a windows update it does stand to reason that I'd be hit first. I haven't done any updates for a while as I'm trying to get off the canary channel at some point without a complete reinstall, so had switched to Dev and hoping for the build #s to catch up for a small window some time this year 😅 |
I'm experiencing this issue as well. I'm able to see the login screen, but upon logging in the screen turns black. |
@chadlwilson's symptom occurred for me as well after updating to 240927. I can confirm that switching to BTW any reason not to leave the display setting as |
Having Updated my UTM VM Windows 11 from 22H2 with the 24H2 from ISO and have the BlackScreen also. Above mentioned Method did not work but the Display change to Option virtio-gpu-gl-pci works. I use RDP and lucky me had it also configured before the Update. No virtio-ramfb-gl anymore i had used from the beginning in mid 2022. MBA M2 MacOS 15 - UTM 4.5.4 |
I suspect the particular update is causing an issue regardless of the display device - since it's possible to change it temporarily and then change it back to the original driver without ongoing issue. |
Hi all, this didn't really work for me. Switching the display device to |
Duplicate of #6837 |
There is definitely something that broke in Windows. Another issue is that when you try to install Windows 24H2 ARM64, it will load the installer and then immediately show "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)" when the graphics drivers are loaded. This can be worked around by un-mounting the guest tools ISO and manually installing it afterwards. |
Thanks, I was trying to do exactly this, installing Win 24H2 ARM64 and had the same issue and nothing worked. Only the combination of selecting virtio-gpu-gl-pci and unmounting the guest additions before installation fixed it for me. |
I experienced "Display Output Not Active" error too. Could not fix it, but found temporary solution:
Though, I still see 'Display Output Not Active' for a second or two while booting/restarting VM, but now it does not obstruct my work anymore. |
ditto. I gave up on emulating win 11. will wait until a proper fix. |
getting same error "Display Output Not Active" |
Just curious if there are any thoughts on a path for this? Could there eventually be a solution without workarounds? |
FWIW, the latest 4.63 release addressed this for me. In 4.62 I was getting blank screens on my windows (23H2) and Debian Bookworm VMs, no matter the display device used. Now everything is working. I see the display not active message very briefly in Debian but everything works fine afterward |
There's two different issues here. #6861 was addressed by 4.6.3 and affects every QEMU VM as soon as you start it. This one only affects Windows 11 24H2 (including after updating to it) and is caused by a Windows driver issue. |
Thanks for the correction, I missed that other issue, and also, thanks for the fix on that one. |
FWIW - I still had to do the workaround - switch video card - reinstall guest tools - switch video back. |
Well... i had the Problem related to 24H2 and after booted from UTM 463 (virtio-ramfb-gl) with no Display out and connecting via Remote Desktop on my MBA M2 i activated/downloadet the spice tools iso via the GUI Frame of UTM and installed the Driver in Win11 Pro Arm 24H2 again. Then the Remote Desktop was Black Screen and the GUI of UTM Sand colored. So even if @timothynoel mixed it up, he got me to try 463. |
Glad to find this workaround as it worked for me and unblocked me. The problem (black screen) cropped up after the guest additions were added, so I got the network, Microsoft Market, and a resizable display (I'm assuming that all of those somehow need guest additions). I stopped the VM, then removed / unmounted the guest-additions iso and then the Win11 installer iso, changed the display driver, and restarted VM, then everything seems to work fine. |
Yeah, there seem to possibly be a few related issues of blank or non-functional display being referred to here which might be slightly different to when I first opened the ticket where it was a transient problem after a specific upgrade that eventually rolled out more widely in 24H2. Subsequent to this I have switched to permanently using the (slow, laggy) But that's another example of a separate blank display device problem that might be a bit independent of this one, and I'll try again on more recent UTM along with some other workarounds to address that (might be #6204). |
The display driver (viogpudo) included in the newer virtio-win package (0.1.266 vs 0.1.229) is nearly two years newer than the driver included with UTM's version of Guest Tools, and is tagged 100.100.104.26600, perhaps indicating it has compatibility with 24H2. Other drivers which have seen updates are net, balloon, RNG, and serial. I wonder if updating the included drivers would solve some display issues with 24H2. |
The same issue exists on the newer drivers as well. |
I just did a clean install of Windows 11 24H2 and installed SPICE immediately after. Similar to #6853, while installing SPICE it seems like the new driver is initialized and I get "Display output not active". It seems like this bricks the VM after rebooting. I've tried all the virtio devices available, virtio-gpu-device gives "Display output not active" right on boot, virtio-gpu-gl-device just gives a blank window right on boot, the rest of the virtio-gpu options hang on the UTM logo showing "Start boot option". and the virtio-ramfb ones black screen. Is there a workaround here or do I just need to install an older build and block it from updating? |
Fix will be coming soon. In the meantime, follow the workaround in the first post. |
For anyone else with the same issue, it turns out the trick to getting the VM to show video was to remove the ISOs for the installer and SPICE. That resolved the issues with virtio-gpu-gl-pci and allowed me to follow that workaround. |
Thanks @aidangoettsch ejecting the Windows ISO and the Tools fix the issue for me. |
Describe the issue
After an update to Windows 11 ARM Insider Preview
26200.5001
(similar for those updating to official release24H2
) when the VM rebooted the screen was black/blank. The VM seemed to be doing stuff underneath.I could workaround/fix this by
virtio-ramfb-gl
(default, I never have changed this) tovirtio-gpu-gl-pci
virtio-ramfb-gl
. Display still works.I'm not sure if this is a change on UTM (from
4.5.x
) or Windows 11 ARM Insider preview nor what the differences are between the display drivers, but recording it here in case others have the same issue and need a workaround.Feel free to close this if it's expected.
Configuration
4.5.2
14.4.1
M1
Debug log
I don't think I can recreate this now - perhaps at the next Insider Preview update? :-(
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config.plist.zip
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