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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:37:16 +1000
From:      Anders Jensen-Waud <anders@jensenwaud.com>
To:        Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD amd64 + VirtualBox on Mac boot issues
Message-ID:  <CALvn0yjEqXmfodobNmDEA506-JkPMz9gnCajgq7TOPcJsRfY-A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2186C930-ED6A-49F8-984C-7A2CACB20B1A@vindaloo.com>
References:  <2186C930-ED6A-49F8-984C-7A2CACB20B1A@vindaloo.com>

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On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Christopher Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
wrote:

> I think this is a VirtualBox problem but I'd like to see if anyone else i=
n
> the FreeBSD community has seen this problem.  Maybe they even have a fix =
or
> workaround.
>
> Is anyone using VirtualBox 4.3.14 to host FreeBSD amd64 guests? I'm doing
> this with VirtualBox on Mac OS X and I get one of three behaviors when
> start the FreeBSD guest:
>
>    o The FreeBSD Guest hangs as Booting=E2=80=A6
>
>    o The guest loads the kernel but panics before launching init and
> userland.
>
>    o The guest boots fine.
>
> I cannot correlate anything that I'm doing to the guest that makes
> VirtualBox behave this way and If I reboot the guest enough times
> eventually it starts. My machine is a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini with 8G of RAM.
> The guest has 1G of RAM. It runs FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE.
>


Are the VirtualBox services loaded upon boot in rc.conf?

See https://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox --

vboxguest_enable=3D"YES"
vboxservice_enable=3D"YES"


>
> If you need more information please feel free to hit me off-list. Again, =
I
> think this is a VirtualBox issue.
>
> -- Chris
>
>



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