strange the installer forces to install the boot loader, with linux on a partition already installed, I would like to skip it. Well lets see how it runs on vb first. ...

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Well xfce version runs fine after install.

ericbsd wrote:I would like to know if you create you virtual machine from scratch?

Yes.

The live session of: ... works. But mate is stucked up.

Just for a comparison sake: the mate desktop version of linux mint:
runs okay.

ASX wrote:use a SATA disk controller, IDE will not work.

http://issues.ghostbsd.org/issues/9

it resolves this issue, but the display of X is stuck, I cannot run anything. Mate desktop shouldnt be this heavy.

Did you setup your Virtual Box to use a FreeBSD system? yes. cat vmghostbsd.vbox <?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- ** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. ** If you make changes to this file while any VirtualBox related application ** is running, your changes will be overwritten later, without taking effect. ...

Hi

Tried to run am64 mate desktop, but the display hangs from cli to gui.

with 24mb video + 2gb ram.

kindly advise.

Thankyou