From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 00:34:23 2012 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 0DBE51065673 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:34:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsimmons0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C292F8FC0A for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:34:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbg15 with SMTP id g15so2303071ghb.13 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:34:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=0dp3VcJUMwrB/iGQUu8ZdHGTNxI665e/agMzCQOGz+g=; b=YIHuAuRXXY5eAbPJIOi6z5CmxA9W/jFco7EZwMtJ3PduLqhgLkqeNSkCsy65UVhyES kXZ4RcmxyB8n0hCrCHWzrH5/KDpBeMkE+7cLAKM74nN8iwjgtjqYFIzgvu847ygDZcJw uE1QF2ahWghAksn4AtJfOTd4sUuu263JsYtG4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.197.6 with SMTP id s6mr7456813yhn.68.1327970061989; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.207.10 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:34:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:34:21 -0500 Message-ID: From: Robert Simmons To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: FreeBSD 9.0 on VirtualBox 4.1.8 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: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:34:23 -0000 I encountered a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on VirtualBox 4.1.8, and I wanted to share my fix for it, so it can be added to the FreeBSD wiki and Handbook if appropriate. Using the default settings of VirtualBox, the following error occurs during boot from the iso image: http://i.imgur.com/kO93X.png I'm using Kubuntu 11.10, and I installed VirtualBox from the official PPA: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib The FreeBSD ISO that I used was "FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso" The following checkbox needs to be checked in settings to be able to boot FreeBSD: Settings > System > Motherboard > Enable IO APIC With that set, everything works great: http://i.imgur.com/Kdyom.png