GhostBSD 11.0: VirtualBox and Calibre feedback
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:21 pm
This post is only to get feedback, if possible, about how VirtualBox and Calibre work in 11.0.
I've installed a FreeBSD 11.0 in another disk into my laptop to see how all things work. I choose FreeBSD to get more control when partitioning the disk to avoid interferences with the main disk, where gbsd10.3 is installed. I was pretty satisfied until I detected 2 major problems for me:
1) VirtualBox machines I had created with GhostBSD 10.3 tend to almost get frozen after several minutes, and the virtualbox window have to be killed to abort. Same virtual machines in GhostBSD 10.3 (main disk) run smoothly.
2) I use regularly Calibre with my ebook reader (Sony PRS-T3). In GhostBSD 10.3 Calibre runs smoothly too, everything works, the device is well detected, book transfers as well, etc. But in FreeBSD 11.0, the complete system reboots itself (rarely seen nowadays in FreeBSD/GhostBSD) 1 or 2 minutes after Calibre detects the ebook reader. The ebook reader connects to the laptop via a usb 2.0 port (I've seen problems in the past with 3.0 ports and FreeBSD).
My main concern is if this weird things could happen in GhostBSD 11.0. So my intention now is to keep using 10.3 for serious work and 11.0 only in a test machine/disk.
I must say that GhostBSD 10.3 is the best freebsd based release/flavour I've tested ever (and I've used 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, etc. and several pcbsd versions). Everything works, it's awesome. One can forget Linux forever. (many thanks once again to all GhostBSD team). But I'm not so sure with 11.0.
Thanks,
Jes
I've installed a FreeBSD 11.0 in another disk into my laptop to see how all things work. I choose FreeBSD to get more control when partitioning the disk to avoid interferences with the main disk, where gbsd10.3 is installed. I was pretty satisfied until I detected 2 major problems for me:
1) VirtualBox machines I had created with GhostBSD 10.3 tend to almost get frozen after several minutes, and the virtualbox window have to be killed to abort. Same virtual machines in GhostBSD 10.3 (main disk) run smoothly.
2) I use regularly Calibre with my ebook reader (Sony PRS-T3). In GhostBSD 10.3 Calibre runs smoothly too, everything works, the device is well detected, book transfers as well, etc. But in FreeBSD 11.0, the complete system reboots itself (rarely seen nowadays in FreeBSD/GhostBSD) 1 or 2 minutes after Calibre detects the ebook reader. The ebook reader connects to the laptop via a usb 2.0 port (I've seen problems in the past with 3.0 ports and FreeBSD).
My main concern is if this weird things could happen in GhostBSD 11.0. So my intention now is to keep using 10.3 for serious work and 11.0 only in a test machine/disk.
I must say that GhostBSD 10.3 is the best freebsd based release/flavour I've tested ever (and I've used 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, etc. and several pcbsd versions). Everything works, it's awesome. One can forget Linux forever. (many thanks once again to all GhostBSD team). But I'm not so sure with 11.0.
Thanks,
Jes