From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 14:42:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB3F3106566C for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:42:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.nelson@me.com) Received: from asmtpout027.mac.com (asmtpout027.mac.com [17.148.16.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40398FC15 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:42:06 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Received: from [10.0.42.100] ([76.84.53.8]) by asmtp027.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KZW00BIZ61JDP00@asmtp027.mac.com> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:41:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1003260081 From: Ross Nelson In-reply-to: <86pr2rjjuy.fsf@ds4.des.no> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:41:37 -0500 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-id: References: <90780.64921.qm@web15704.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> <86pr2rjjuy.fsf@ds4.des.no> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:11:54 +0000 Cc: Jiandong Lu , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtual machine on mac os x 10.6 to run FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:42:06 -0000 On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Bob Bishop writes: >> Jiandong Lu writes: >>> hi,are there some virtual machines on mac os x 10.6 to run FreeBSD = 8? >> FreeBSD 8.0 runs fine on 10.6 under Parallels 5, but that does cost = money. >=20 > Isn't there a free-as-in-beer edition of VMWare? VMware Server for Windows and Linux (as well as VMware Player on = Windows) are both free as in beer, but there isn't a free VMware for = Mac. VMware Fusion is $80USD and comparable to Parallels. I had the same problem with VirtualBox not working on OS X. FreeBSD, = QNX, Plan 9, and Windows all failed when I tried to partition and format = the virtual disk. I'll have to try the Enable IO APIC option to see if = that works for me. Ross=