From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 15:37:02 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B26D728F for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:37:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C41B1844 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:37:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-19-20.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.20]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7SFb0l4022245 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:37:01 -0500 Message-ID: <53FF4E13.6060703@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:43:15 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Virtualbox questions .... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:37:02 -0000 I just pkg-installed virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-additions virtualbox-ose-kmod & whatever they wanted as dependencies. I followed most of the directions at https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host-virtualbox.html, until I got down to the part about changing permissions for |/dev/vboxnetctl .... there is no such animal on my box (FBSD 9.3 64-bit, new install) .... I skipped down to launch virtualbox, which failed as root because of no display set, but worked as regular user (I am su'ed into root from regular user, not console logged in, that may be the problem) .... Is anyone using VBox under FBSD 9.3 (w/ desktop, XFCE or other) to run Win7 VM's ? Any advice/gotchas/wisdom/etc. :-) ? TIA ....| -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.