Help installing in VirtualBox

Questions about the installation of FreeBSD
grahamperrin
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Lot Out root… to gain desktop items

Post by grahamperrin »

A screen recording of the Log Out root… workaround with GhostBSD-21.04.27.iso

https://photos.app.goo.gl/itKiViQeENgEhdhF6
ragarawl74
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Re: Help installing in VirtualBox

Post by ragarawl74 »

You must have created a virtual machine using the default settings for a FreeBSD machine.

Try this... when creating a new GhostBSD host, choose that you are creating a "Windows 7 - 64bit machine"... and everything will work.

The reason is the weird default hardware VirtualBox assigns to a FreeBSD machine... has to do with the MouseType, Video Card type/memory, Controllers, etc.

Everything works fine for me.
grahamperrin
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Re: Help installing in VirtualBox

Post by grahamperrin »

ragarawl74 wrote: Thu Jan 27, 2022 5:47 pm You must have created a virtual machine using the default settings for a FreeBSD machine.
Unlikely, but thanks.
CoolHwhipMike
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Re: Help installing in VirtualBox

Post by CoolHwhipMike »

That's strange. I just installed in VirtualBox a couple of times over the last few days and everything has worked perfectly. The two exceptions were changing the VBox graphics controller to "VBoxSVGA" and fixing my mouse with xmodmap.

I used the United States mirror - Maybe the iso was different or something? You did create a user during the install?
grahamperrin
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Re: Help installing in VirtualBox

Post by grahamperrin »

The issue in April 2021 (and earlier) was prior to installation.
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