GhsotBSD - a FreeBSD variant with a GUI installer just presents a black screen before the GUI comes up. I've used the LXDE desktop. The installation stops at the point the cups daemon tries to start but I doubt that's teh problem. I've attached the vmware.log (compressed in a tar archive) but I can't see any error myself.
Here is the .vmx file
.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "10"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "256"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "GhostBSD.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "/home/marty/Downloads/GhostBSD3.5-BETA3-lxde-amd64.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
usb.present = "FALSE"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "-1"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.startConnected = "FALSE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
hpet0.present = "TRUE"
displayName = "GhostBSD"
guestOS = "freebsd-64"
nvram = "GhostBSD.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
gui.exitOnCLIHLT = "FALSE"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "soft"
powerType.suspend = "soft"
powerType.reset = "soft"
extendedConfigFile = "GhostBSD.vmxf"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 48 34 65 7a d5 73-78 c6 8f e8 e9 38 95 61"
uuid.location = "56 4d 48 34 65 7a d5 73-78 c6 8f e8 e9 38 95 61"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""
scsi0:0.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "-1"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "35"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0C:29:38:95:61"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "-382167711"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "33554432"
cleanShutdown = "TRUE"
softPowerOff = "FALSE"
usb:0.present = "TRUE"
usb:0.deviceType = "hid"
usb:0.port = "0"
usb:0.parent = "-1"
usb:1.speed = "2"
usb:1.present = "TRUE"
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"
usb:1.port = "1"
usb:1.parent = "-1"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
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I've already removed the virtual usb device and printer - no luck
The only solution I've found is VirtualBox (not a surprise!). Desktop installer worked perfectly using VB.
If anybody wants to try GhostBSD out here's the link to the project on Sourceforge