Help installing in VirtualBox

[Sunray]

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 finally boot into a desktop but I don't see any option to install to disk. How do you actually do this? Not very intuitive. Attaching screenshot of desktop for reference.

[ericbsd]

How much ram the VM has?

[Sunray]

4096 MB (16 GB total on host)

[slughorn]

I have also 4096 MB and 16 GB total and it works on my VirtualBox.
Did you try to install directly? Or is it a Live image?

[Sunray]

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

[ericbsd]

You are not the first reporting issue with the desktop not displaying on the live system with VirtualBox. I will need to investigate that.

You can start the installer in the terminal with gbi

[Sunray]

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

[grahamperrin]

… no desktop icons as before …

… desktop not displaying on the live system with VirtualBox. I will need to investigate that. …

I have a snapshot of a guest in this state. A screen recording of htop shows one caja process after another, endlessly, sometimes two visible.

I can work around by logging out root, just once, after which there's automated login and the four icons appear:

1. Computer
2. ghostbsd's Home
3. Install GhostBSD
4. Trash

Alternatively, although this shows more than expected:

caja --force-desktop

Comparable symptoms, some old bugs, in no particular order:

• mate-session spawns 10 x-caja-desktop windows on first login. · Issue #19 · mate-desktop/mate-session-manager – the "caja -n" hint, in particular
• #746339 - caja: Caja crashed, but spawn infinity, unable to launch others. - Debian Bug report logs
• 1242182 – Caja respawns endlessly in NX session

[ericbsd]

We did fix a problem for virtual box integration https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build/issues/133 and https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-bu ... 59d18219db

[grahamperrin]

… I can work around by logging out root, just once, …

Works for me with GhostBSD-21.04.26.iso in live mode.

(I might have tried to log out more than once, maybe three times, because there was no perceptible log out. Just appearance of the desktop.)