Yes, I (now) get that the VM is starting, it's just that - because I did not get to a login-prompt and the screen stayed black - I assumed that it was hung during boot without further testing/verifying it. Thanks for suggesting the ping/ssh part. I normally have the VM set to 'multi-user.target' and login through either the VMWare provided text-based console or ssh. Since the first kernel I have this behavior with is 6.10.4 (6.10.3 works) I tried as you suggested : rpm -q --changelog kernel-6.10.4-200.fc40.x86_64 | head -50 * Sun Aug 11 2024 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [6.10.4-0] - wifi: brcmfmac: cfg80211: Handle SSID based pmksa deletion (Janne Grunau) - New config for 6.10.3 (Justin M. Forbes) - Linux v6.10.4 * Mon Aug 05 2024 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [6.10.3-0] - Bluetooth: hci_event: Fix setting DISCOVERY_FINDING for passive scanning (Luiz Augusto von Dentz) - Linux v6.10.3 * Sat Jul 27 2024 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [6.10.2-0] - Linux v6.10.2 But nothing really stands out to me there. The last thing which might be helpful, is that I also do not get the graphical 'Fedora logo' that normally is displayed for me during boot, even with 'multi-user.target' set. Which makes me wonder if the issue is not with the kernel per se, but rather how it interacts with some other (graphical ?) piece of software ? Or it might turn out to be a VMWare bug after all, I don't know anymore. Thanks for the help. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue