From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 11 10:37:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75D0630A for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:37:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f176.google.com (mail-ie0-f176.google.com [209.85.223.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 426A921A0 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:37:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f176.google.com with SMTP id tr6so9640101ieb.35 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 03:37:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=QC+zx4EY9spyL9J4LyphZk+8UyKErFHrdJcQgz4+XZQ=; b=eAjNZRsAYrGRJWj2nqz+DZrwJ+YYbQGCuTWATxqGblDq9xPBw+5FWbUiqrMiWOw05R xw37enaR5gKHPm7eQULhPjmy/f/0HQK/kiau0n239VANDjSmCKT2rNYttFI/0NT047yp THK/kedTji/Hbp8VLMX+lJt6dGH4GFtwl6eMzRRLCarWOFG8K+h8C+EdfzQI8Stc4pbW vsWTTIZInZN0dtvh5XKhZUbiScLJGnfOMmiOAs4PYhqqwxiKE+Y9IzNy9wmvDytm1xSO pACdN9pmUo443BFOOKM/eef47Fatywt2XdkTFb2abLbddBrD6nMujEztsVQXiHXK+63+ yU3w== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl2k1xJw+WCKLNf6+/qOZ+vrg3QP9S8MpTRK7zISuRXXXE17eN5msIE8uHbFB17ogtvlFLQ MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.230.212 with SMTP id jn20mr30751775icb.59.1407753436436; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 03:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.159.70 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Aug 2014 03:37:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [60.242.115.240] In-Reply-To: <2186C930-ED6A-49F8-984C-7A2CACB20B1A@vindaloo.com> References: <2186C930-ED6A-49F8-984C-7A2CACB20B1A@vindaloo.com> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:37:16 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD amd64 + VirtualBox on Mac boot issues From: Anders Jensen-Waud To: Christopher Hilton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:37:23 -0000 On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Christopher Hilton wrote: > I think this is a VirtualBox problem but I'd like to see if anyone else i= n > the FreeBSD community has seen this problem. Maybe they even have a fix = or > workaround. > > Is anyone using VirtualBox 4.3.14 to host FreeBSD amd64 guests? I'm doing > this with VirtualBox on Mac OS X and I get one of three behaviors when > start the FreeBSD guest: > > o The FreeBSD Guest hangs as Booting=E2=80=A6 > > o The guest loads the kernel but panics before launching init and > userland. > > o The guest boots fine. > > I cannot correlate anything that I'm doing to the guest that makes > VirtualBox behave this way and If I reboot the guest enough times > eventually it starts. My machine is a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini with 8G of RAM. > The guest has 1G of RAM. It runs FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE. > Are the VirtualBox services loaded upon boot in rc.conf? See https://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox -- vboxguest_enable=3D"YES" vboxservice_enable=3D"YES" > > If you need more information please feel free to hit me off-list. Again, = I > think this is a VirtualBox issue. > > -- Chris > >