From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 11 04:16:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD97106566B for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:16:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE948FC0A for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:16:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6B3nbjP057087 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:49:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p6B3nYUi076194 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:49:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p6B3nYMa076150; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:49:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:49:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Sebastian Muniz Message-ID: <20110711034932.GF6611@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4E199ED4.4090205@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E199ED4.4090205@gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:49:37 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtualbox install X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:16:17 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 10), Sebastian Muniz said: > Anyway, this is to inform that installing virtualbox on a W7 64bits > workstation, one should use the Intel/PRO 1000 MT Server 82567LM Gigabit > adapter which loads as em driver. Using PCNet or other intel does not > work. That's strange. The NIC selection in the guest config should be unrelated to the OS or hardware of the host. Using a 32-bit XP host, I can use any of the Intel NIC types (they all are handled by the em driver) or either PCNet NIC (handled by the le driver) with no problems on my FreeBSD guests. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com