Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:20:51 +0100 From: Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net> To: Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6 Message-ID: <4A50C4D3.8000902@incunabulum.net> In-Reply-To: <20090611194557.GC98175@bsdcrew.de> References: <20090611194557.GC98175@bsdcrew.de>
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Hi,
I just tested VirtualBox from ports and it looks excellent. Running on
7-STABLE, amd64, Athlon64 4000+.
I was able to run the OpenSolarisApp VMDK image without any problems
from this guy's page:
http://blogs.sun.com/jkshah/entry/minimal_opensolaris_image_for_virtualbox
I also came across this, but haven't tried any of the images here:
http://virtualboximages.com/
I had a few issues with NanoBSD, though:-
* I had previously built an image for USB boot, and it appears this
isn't supported by the Open Source Edition; neither is booting from a
SCSI device, or so it appears.
* If I try to use either of the SCSI controllers from the OSE GUI, I
get an error that the driver can't be loaded in the VBox logs.
* The "VBoxManage convertraw" command seems to be needed to convert
NanoBSD images into VDI which VBox can understand.
* I'll try to find time to rebuild an 8-CURRENT image for
ATA/CompactFlash; I'd be very interested in headless support.
* Has anyone gotten serial to work?
Once again, thank you very much, for all of your hard work on this.
cheers,
BMS
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