From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 5 15:40:59 2009 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 19B3D106566C; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:40:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C408FC0C; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:40:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bms@incunabulum.net) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DBD3AC77F; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:20:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:20:57 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 4noC5rlNYXYHwuSOGloRXa/4eoc8GeHJrMJBa+JKpgBQ 1246807256 Received: from [192.168.123.18] (82-35-112-254.cable.ubr07.dals.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.112.254]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 927AE49EA0; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:20:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A50C4D3.8000902@incunabulum.net> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:20:51 +0100 From: Bruce Simpson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Wilke References: <20090611194557.GC98175@bsdcrew.de> In-Reply-To: <20090611194557.GC98175@bsdcrew.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6 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: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:40:59 -0000 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