More details about how you created this VM and installed Debian (what options you chose in the Debian installer) would help us figure out what might be the problem. My suspicion is that something is keeping the graphical login in the VM from starting - either it's not completely installed or something didn't get configured correctly
Can you force Debian to boot into console mode and post, the output of the commands inxi -Fzxx and lspci (you may need to use apt to install the inxi package).
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Paul Rockwell (technogeezer)
vExpert 2026 (3x)
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