https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg Try pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 (Host+F2 in vbox) to switch to another virtual terminal. Then do a text login. Then you can query what the problem is, for example in .local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log https://forum.manjaro.org/t/xorg-still-broken-in-virtualbox-after-update-2016-05-22-stable/1999/3 etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf #Section "Device" # Identifier "Device0" # Driver "vboxvideo" #EndSection Xorg -configure /var/log/Xorg.0.log startx /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo group/xorg-apps forwarding https://ostechnix.com/how-to-configure-x11-forwarding-using-ssh-in-linux/