Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:37:16 +1000 From: Anders Jensen-Waud <anders@jensenwaud.com> To: Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD amd64 + VirtualBox on Mac boot issues Message-ID: <CALvn0yjEqXmfodobNmDEA506-JkPMz9gnCajgq7TOPcJsRfY-A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2186C930-ED6A-49F8-984C-7A2CACB20B1A@vindaloo.com> References: <2186C930-ED6A-49F8-984C-7A2CACB20B1A@vindaloo.com>
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On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> 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 > >
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