I just wanted to say that everything worked fine after installing with gbi.

I downloaded the ISO from here http://ghostbsd.org/download and it works like a Live image. How do you install it?

4096 MB (16 GB total on host)

I wasted too much time trying to boot GhostBSD XFCE in both VMWare (free version) and VirtualBox and neither worked. I booted to a black screen in both cases. After some frustration I tested the official MATE version and that worked in VirtualBox (didn't bother with VMWare this time). So now I can f...