From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 14 16:33:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06842F16 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:33:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crodr001@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x22f.google.com (mail-la0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22f]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850221A1D for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id fe20so706612lab.6 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:33:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Yq79TwzNZoiaNoXUs+3fAejoLRxx7AEeQKcWHb/ToSA=; b=SVqVgE0THl9GPwyH7o1t0TrQOq11JMhyYw/NdxE+Uin6EzYRRapgku/hTGi806qMxI X/9ixIKnwUKTlGhSvx3d4+mX9Sz1tf5uHnzeOjZ3b5+tIWs84LLdkT2NjI3fsxYO7OPL tj+UmyEQf7YEtzF47BsH4vZNJng94D2TeKoLpT0fwyqEnWhHsr51bqNrx3bQhD9rpsDX /6CflkthXmTvrVrF00eOrQu8oxGM8Quru+e0TTJ2RYo8cacUputxnkc+C315x6DJ91xj oYPMR1rAiaRg1IvHdAPXiFLY9i1HwtqSJr+SI+FSSgsRruSMvM3b2Qff0g8FhO1rqgtX 3EQg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.120.196 with SMTP id le4mr1546754lab.6.1371227628500; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.149.38 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:33:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:33:48 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gnAYr5h9P1QadHAfE14CLfmCocg Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cannot startx on FreeBSD10 Current From: Craig Rodrigues To: Walter Hurry Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-current Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:33:50 -0000 On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT (r251572) amd64 in a VirtualBox VM. > Recently, I started mentoring a Google Summer of Code student for the FreeBSD project. I worked with the student to set up a VM to run FreeBSD, with full graphical desktop. You might want to follow the instructions that the student followed here: http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rodrigc/2013/05/24/setting-up-a-vm-for-doing-gsoc-work/ Only interesting details: (1) Student used VMWare player instead of VirtualBox (shouldn't be a big deal). (2) We used pkgng to install binary packages (3) We used one of the pkgng mirrors, since pkgng packages from FreeBSD.org aren't fully available yet Other than that, things worked fine, and the student was able to get a full FreeBSD with graphical desktop inside a VM. -- Craig