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From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
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	(message from Robert Simmons on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:07:25 -0500)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0 on VirtualBox 4.1.8
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>>>>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:07:25 -0500, Robert Simmons said:
> 
> 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

How did you create the VM?  If you choose "FreeBSD (64-bit)" as the OS type
(to match the FreeBSD platform "amd64") then it should check Enable IO APIC
autoamatically.

__Martin