Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:48:40 GMT From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0 on VirtualBox 4.1.8 Message-ID: <201201311148.q0VBmekJ025016@higson.cam.lispworks.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BQLa9BU16TA46HA0Y_AFTAfSxUOu5ofifKwUQFGvGCWguVm6w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Robert Simmons on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:07:25 -0500) References: <CA%2BQLa9BU16TA46HA0Y_AFTAfSxUOu5ofifKwUQFGvGCWguVm6w@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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