From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 8 04:07:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA41106564A for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 04:07:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sterling@camdensoftware.com) Received: from wh2.interactivevillages.com (wh2.interactivevillages.com [75.125.250.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C508FC12 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 04:07:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 174-21-99-21.tukw.qwest.net ([174.21.99.21] helo=_HOSTNAME_) by wh2.interactivevillages.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhwxR-0001Yb-5t for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:53:58 -0700 Received: by _HOSTNAME_ (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:07:39 -0700 Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:07:39 -0700 From: Chip Camden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100808040739.GA41947@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4C5B8748.1060904@el.net> <20100806041651.GA97269@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100806041651.GA97269@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Company: Camden Software Consulting URL: http://camdensoftware.com X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - wh2.interactivevillages.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - camdensoftware.com Subject: Re: virtualbox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:07:45 -0000 --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Chip Camden on Thursday, 05 August 2010: > Quoth Brandon Gooch on Thursday, 05 August 2010: > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, kalin m wrote: > > > > > > > > > hi all.. > > > > > > just wondering how mature is virtualbox to be used with freebsd - eit= her as > > > host or as guest. is viable to be used in production environment? > > > > >=20 > > >From my experience (running the latest 3.2.6 on 8.1-RELEASE, 8-STABLE, > > and 9-CURRENT) as both host and guest systems, YES. > >=20 > > I'm also using 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux guests; performance > > and stability are very, very good. > >=20 > > Please try VirtualBox for yourself -- I think you will be pleased with > > the effort that's been put in to the port by the developers :) > >=20 > > -Brandon > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" >=20 > I'll second that. I haven't used FreeBSD as a guest yet, but as a host > VirtualBox performs very nicely, and (touch wood) I haven't had any > problems with using Windows 7 and Windows XP as guests. I'm on amd64 > FreeBSD, and I've run both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows guests. >=20 Just to follow up, as part of my Bugathon participation I created a VM with 8.1-RELEASE as a guest for testing. The i386 version is running like a cha= mp. I couldn't get the amd64 iso to boot under VirtualBox, though. It just appeared to hang after loading most of the system -- sorry, I don't have a log. When running Xorg under VirtualBox, I had to add the following to xorg.conf to get the keyboard and mouse to respond: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" EndSection Everything else worked out of the box (so to speak). --=20 Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips= .com --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMXi2LAAoJEIpckszW26+Rf40H/RFwBFok8s2Kzk3gsvOW+Vc/ 4zwe035zevti4HTL3xlOcFfa+kG560eO6YMyQlxyltSl3mQ8I26tmnJT1Xt3eAsz CU2nq7tysGsLwmE3hcneXI7KLDQaGWoaAjMCvyDP8ebLdQ92vv668V2kA7gvidAJ oRO3qKm0Uc2vjXpVMQgrihHNEj9nHYgYvs7PDiSOW8BlNQMYhupKxpZyo+eNDskF OhUIe1mAuUgxs27LuXX12yB/8UwExGQaB0RfU+Kw7wc2Yz+IeqQnUh2X6DcjoA7z BubMANcLsdAcm3BRD0j4pp/HLrbSWW6+jT3e4f3S/StSZO6wavtw2A4etkXClec= =XtGk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--