User and Password after booting from iso in virtualbox

[harryandtheboat]

Hello,

I wonder if I am the only one with this problem?
I downloaded the 22.10 iso and booted into virtualbox 7.0 with it.
It comes up with the choice "Try or install" which I chose.

Then comes a login window with the user vboxuser and I have to enter a password.
It is not "ubuntu" (without " ).
Also not the user "ubuntu" with the password "ubuntu".

Also the password is not "password" - or an empty password

Google brought me no enlightenment.
Except that you should boot into the root shell, as described here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/9255...o-a-root-shell

It's just stupid that I'm asked for the root password here too.

Why is that so awkward? I wanted to try kubuntu once and obviously something goes wrong.

I test many Linux distros. So far they all just boot directly to the surface, from which I can then start an installation or using/trying them.

I downloaded the iso from here https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/

So what am I doing wrong, how can I look at kubuntu once in the vm?

Thanks for any tips.

[claydoh]

It comes up with the choice "Try or install" which I chose.

There is something wrong here.

There is no way a Kubuntu iso will have any sort of 'vboxuser' user account, this could happen only during or after an installation
After the boot menu, it should look exactly like this:
https://userbase.kde.org/Kubuntu/Ins...nstall_Process

There is no login window in the live session or the installer

Then comes a login window with the user vboxuser and I have to enter a password.
It is not "ubuntu" (without " ).
Also not the user "ubuntu" with the password "ubuntu"

Are you *sure* you downloaded the ISO image from Kubuntu?
This is a direct link to the image
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/r...ktop-amd64.iso


What exactly are you trying to do? I think there is some confusion here, so maybe describing what you are doing, and why you are trying to access a root shell from the live session, might help direct things in the correct direction.
Ubuntu does not use the root account by default, you use sudo instead of login in as a root user.

From the live session, try just running a command, and if that doesn't work, then use sudo command. or sudo -i for a persistent sudo state, though I can't remember if there are any differences in how this all works in the live, read-only session from the ISO.
There is no root shell per se on a live session

Except that you should boot into the root shell, as described here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/9255...o-a-root-shell

That is for an installed-to-disk system, not for a compressed squashfs read-only, running-from-ram file system.