[wheemer]

I'm trying it on VMware Workstation 14.

I had used the ova available for 8.1.2 which opens and runs perfectly. I then dropped in the latest nightly release from today... It reboots and updates fine, just no text anywhere.

Can you change your virtual hardware version to 12: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1010675

https://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html 

Cool, that worked! I changed the hardware compatibility to Workstation 12 and the fonts are there. I wish I new how to make use of the second link but that's daunting.

Thanks