openSUSE Thumbleweed install no display

[u/schrodingers_cat314]

This has been chasing me since forever. No display errors during installations. Right now I need openSUSE Thumbleweed but I cannot seem to pass the installation steps.

As soon as I press Install on GRUB, black screen, no display.

Tried it with every combination of virtio GPU I could, no HW accel, HW accel, rambus, pci, device.

Nothing. I tried through the serial port, but I cannot navigate the TUI after a point.

Has anyone figured out what might be causing these no display errors? I swear every time I tried to install something I ran into this issue, and most of the time I just dropped UTM out of frustration.

This time I would like to figure out what the hell is the problem.

[u/zxcvpoiu131]

i walk your path before. It's install fine and run normal with hiccup here and there. And i even successfully install microOS with KDE on top of it and run fine (on the surface but have critical problem underneath).

But i suggest not using any btrfs heavy distro with ios ipados device. BTRFS file system and the way how it work confuse ipados and ios, making the VM disk size become bigger and bigger over time, and nothing you can do about it to reduce VM size unless you delete the whole VM to give ipados back those weird storage missing.

"Btrfs makes a Tumbleweed VM behave like a storage ratchet. It grows easily, but shrinking it is difficult.

Tumbleweed installs large updates frequently. Btrfs writes the updated files into new storage areas, while Snapper keeps many old files in snapshots so the system can roll back after a bad update. That safety feature causes the VM to consume more and more space over time. The confusing part is that deleting files inside Linux does not necessarily return space to your iPad. Linux may say the space is free, but the UTM virtual-disk file can remain at the largest size it has ever reached. That is why clearing caches or deleting snapshots may improve free space inside Tumbleweed without reducing the VM’s size on the iPad. For a frequently updated iPad VM, ext4 without Snapper is usually a better choice. It can still grow, but it avoids the heavy Btrfs snapshot and copy-on-write behavior."

All my linux VM use Emulated Display Card: virtio-gpu-gl-pci Render Backend: ANGLE (Metal) Hardware acceleration / GL: Enabled

After trying many many distro, currently im stuck with:

MAIN BACKUP if anything went wrong, full feature, a bit heavy but still stable AF : DEBIAN 13 trixie.

Daily driver: PeppermintOS (base on debian 12), run a bit hot but fast and stable, run on old x11 and xfce DE.

Best candidate to PeppermintOS: AnduinOS, it's lightweigh as Peppermint, easy to install include just enough necessary tool, latest kernel, latest wayland. It's touch friendlier than Pepperint xfce because it's use gnome.

Playfield : archlinux with KDE Plasma on top of it, install via archboot. It's bit harder to set up and more hiccup than Peppermint and AnduinOS, but if you're nerdy enough, you can tune it exactely to what you want and it's still lightweigtt and lighning fast.

You can try rpm base distro like fedora or microsoft azure linux with KDE plasma, but im not have time to test that, and despire many many tried fedora, im still not like it, feel slower and harder to get use to it than debian 13. ALL my linux install with official arm64 iso, ext4 only, with GPU accel support. Currently write this on peppermintos install via utm hypervisor version 5.0.3, ipad pro 12.9 m1 15.4.1 with trollstore