vboxmanage cannot set graphicscontroller to QemuRamFB => duplicate of #22232

[aw125]

Hi,

I've recently had my x86_64 windows machine replaced by M3 Macbook.

I had hoped to continue to use vbox + vagrant on this new laptop.

I wanted to build an oracle linux 9 arm vm to use for development. This works great through the gui but when I try to use packer to build a custom box it will not start.

I think this is down to packer setting the graphics controller to vmsvga because if I set that in the gui I get the same problems which is a crash/hang straight after typing the boot command.

I was going to create a patch for packer to allow it to set QemuRamFB as the controller but then I found this in the forums ​https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=112653 and sure enough there does not seem to be a way to set this to QemuRamFB via vboxmanage currently.

The other thing i've noticed is that if you change a working vm from QemuRamFB to something else then you lose the option in the GUI to set it back and you basically need to delete and recreate in the GUI or go hacking the config file manually.

[paulson]

Closing as a duplicate of previously filed ticket #22232.