So I just first booted this interesting looking distro and immediately run into this bug. Guys seriously, it’s been a year and nobody was able to fix this? Is this done on purpose to make it harder for people to get into this maybe? :-] [image] What is the default password f…

Hello and welcome, This seems to only present itself when running in a VM. Are you trying to run Cachy is a virtual environment? [image] Slow install in KVM Cachy does not really support VMs and is not intended to be used with them. Preparation steps | CachyOS

yes. I am actually just testing something. So in that case it’s not so urgent, but still looks bad and might turn some potential users away, because it is quite common that people test stuff in a VM before installing it for real

What type of VM are you testing in? Since modern desktop environments often depend on at least SOME media acceleration features of a modern CPU or iGPU you often have to make sure you are sharing some of those resources to the VM. Even proxmox defaults to a v2 CPU which limits CPU functions and is…

VMWare Workstation Pro 25H2. Setting it to 4 CPUs does not help. If CachyOS is not recommended to run in a VM then maybe you should update your Docs and correct this big error :wink: [firefox_yzBjdCEy9B]

This is probably relevant, particularly the acceleration settings https://medium.com/@alfor93/arch-linux-on-vmware-setting-up-sway-and-wayland-710b233a7a97

Cachy runs fine in VMs, but there are infinite ways to set up VMs so you can never test everything. It’s not even clear what issue you are facing - you just quote-posted an old post describing an issue - including a fix/workaround - that I have never encountered when installing cachy in a VM and ve…

Jeez! It’s me McVitas and I would have replied sooner, but sign in via google just stopped working on your forum and still does not work! So I decided to creat new account instead of waiting if someone fixes it. So mattsteg - if you actually read the topic I linked to, you might have saved a lot of…

As far as I am aware KDE Plasma with wayland requires 3d acceleration. so dropping to X11 will work arround that. wayland it self does not require 3d acceleration but he combo does. Since you can chose what ever desktop you want and I don’t see that mentioned I am just going to continue to assume t…

[image] What is the default password for liveuser? For my part .. I am surprised the session defaults to Xorg, and was also similarly surprised to find that the deprecated synaptics is included and used by default. I would be of the opinion that both these should be changed .. which could also be…

you are right… so is anyone fixing the docs yet? :thinking: :wink:

liveCD cannot login unless you switch to Wayland

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cscs January 8, 2026, 9:46pm 2

Hello and welcome,

This seems to only present itself when running in a VM.

Are you trying to run Cachy is a virtual environment?