From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 16:20:31 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E3CDC19 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f181.google.com (mail-qc0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B3E61D1E for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:20:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f181.google.com with SMTP id i17so1047939qcy.12 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:20:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to; bh=dQO3QnrTe93e5z6duZkWl0J83uOnYB6H+z0xWjkppgA=; b=mjz2vOgI3f8EFexY51lygEAYuKpENj56nZzivNUji6MlMiHRRt1T7bf5kd40bwmjw+ Ab1KqGKDKDvRPhhoywFi8YFG1BDlL3M8D3bilIRFdOwp4V8WOX5GCs+tfi9h1ZlkcPwO gJyGiW4X1tan+9OO9hQs/E9enD14UxL5j3Vo5pdQmWr+28VpcdV1YI/UR8McBmGTY+5A V3GB98UXGZLDLBFtbuOuzpXM52sx4TKVl/CQG5uaCKtqm3Y/tbrXQHo6PU7xMEfV44nY JnsuRf7SxBjpDEsOmJIYk/Cpo9wC6MMNSE2qfbbI1+dchqI8yMhkhdsJq18d3CDYgDQX LvrQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnFDQAS2i+FbOe7mRnZtOfiDY+9V7WGcgKb99iZ2t8r8h85u8OmohjjnCcxNtYK8PNmBWGT X-Received: by 10.224.88.198 with SMTP id b6mr7845044qam.97.1409242506415; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.65] ([96.236.21.80]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l30sm6194331qgf.9.2014.08.28.09.15.05 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Virtualbox questions .... Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 From: Paul Kraus In-Reply-To: <53FF4E13.6060703@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:15:04 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <17B34099-0BA8-48A5-80E4-788935F004A2@kraus-haus.org> References: <53FF4E13.6060703@hiwaay.net> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! 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 16:20:31 -0000 On Aug 28, 2014, at 11:43, William A. Mahaffey III = wrote: > 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 =85.| I am using VirtualBox under 9.x. You only need to change permissions if you are running VMs as users = *other* than root. All of my systems are servers and run the VMs as = root, so I have not had to change any permissions. If you are going to run the GUI, you need to give it access to your = display. I generally log in as root (most of the time via VNC) and the = GUI works fine. I am running a combination of Windows Server 2008R2, FreeBSD 9.x, = FreeBSD 10.0, OpenSuse 12.x without any issues. I do have a problem on = certain hardware running OpenSuSE 13.x (and other Linux distributions = based on the came kernel), they hang on boot and I have not been able to = track it down. I only run Linux when I need to, so the vast majority of = my Unix-like VMs are FreeBSD. -- Paul Kraus paul@kraus-haus.org