Solved Can't Get Past Black Screen with FreeBSD Guest on Qemu

I installed 13 in a Qemu VM (Ubuntu host), and it all went well until I installed Xfce and LightDM. One thing I know I forgot was enabling Dbus. Now I get a black screen and there's no way out of it. If I boot into single user, I can't try to fix anything because it's RO. I can't go into a virtual terminal, because that gives me a virtual terminal on Ubuntu.

At this point it's probably faster and less painful to start over, but I'm here to learn (I haven't used FreeBSD much since version 4), and I wonder if there's some magic trick that will solve my problem. Something like how to go straight to a terminal on boot, though with write permissions.
 
I can't try to fix anything because it's RO.
If using ZFS: zfs set readonly=off zroot/ROOT/default
If using UFS: fsck -y && mount -a -t ufs

In single user mode only the root filesystem is mounted and will always be read-only.
 
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