Black screen when connecting to Multipass VM

[drmoz]

I wanted to know if NoMachine will work with Canonical Multipass (a lightweight Ubuntu VM)?  Multipass itself only provides a terminal environment.  However, I have installed Ubuntu desktop and RDP on the VM and successfully ran a desktop from my Mac – the problem is that it is extremely slow (unusable).  Hence, I wanted to try NoMachine – I have installed NoMachine both on the VM and my Mac.  However, I cannot successfully connect – I  just get a black screen which terminates after about 10 seconds.  I was just wondering if anyone had tried this with Multipass and had any success?

[Britgirl]

What Ubuntu desktop environment is installed in that VM? NoMachine can install in any VM, what’s important is that there is a desktop environment running there.

You can check with grep ^Exec /usr/share/xsessions/*

Take a look at:

How to run a virtual desktop environment on Linux different from the default one with NoMachine
https://kb.nomachine.com/AR04K00667

to know how to set the right desktop.

[drmoz]

Sorry for the slow follow-up, but I wanted to thank you Britgirl.

I still could not get the Ubuntu Desktop to run successfully; however, it may just have been a size/memory issue as I was able to get other lighter desktops to work just fine.

Thanks again.

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