GhostBSD ISO live boot user experience as a VirtualBox guest

[grahamperrin]

The following steps can improve the live mode UX:

1. do not enable EFI
2. enable bidirectional clipboard sharing
3. give 4,096 MB base memory
4. boot from the ISO
5. open MATE Terminal
6. pkg install virtualbox-ose-additions
7. kldload /boot/modules/vboxguest.ko /boot/modules/vboxvfs.ko
8. rc-update add vboxguest && rc-update add vboxservice
9. …
10. exit
11. System menu
12. Log Out root…
13. await automated log in.

Tested with GhostBSD-21.01.20.iso and VirtualBox GUI 5.2.44 r139111 on FreeBSD-CURRENT.

Code: Select all

% pkg query '%o %v %R' virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-kmod
emulators/virtualbox-ose 5.2.44_4 poudriere
emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod 5.2.44_4 unknown-repository
% freebsd-version -kru
14.0-CURRENT
14.0-CURRENT
14.0-CURRENT
% date ; uname -a
Sun 14 Feb 2021 17:18:32 GMT
FreeBSD mowa219-gjp4-8570p 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #14 main-f44e67d120: Wed Feb 10 23:57:02 GMT 2021     root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC  amd64
% 

Known issues

Mouse integration not working with VirtualBox 5.2.44

[ericbsd]

• sysrc vboxguest_enable="YES" && sysrc vboxservice_enable="YES

This is not compatible with GhostBSD. GhostBSD uses OpenRC.

the command is:

Code: Select all

sudo rc-update add vboxguest && sudo rc-update add vboxservice"

[grahamperrin]

Sorry! I forgot about OpenRC.

Off topic from live boot: Wiki pages about VirtualBox – one of the pages requires (amongst other things) an update for OpenRC. Thanks.

[ericbsd]

I rarely deal with documentation I set up the wiki for anyone to contribute.

[ericbsd]

This commit just fixed a lot of problem https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-bu ... 59d18219db

[grahamperrin]

GhostBSD-21.04.26.iso seems to resolve most issues. Context: https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?p=9402#p9402

I'll mark this topic as solved.

Unresolved issue (in someone else's topic): https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.p ... 9401#p9401