Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:58:19 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: virtualbox wishlist [already :-)] Message-ID: <4A15882B.7030805@icyb.net.ua>
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I tried the experimental virtualbox port on stable/7 amd64 and I must say I am impressed! Thank you very much! And already a small wishlist: 1. It seems that currently it is impossible to use raw devices with virtualbox - I tried something that I googled up and it didn't work: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename test.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/zvol/tank/test -register [...] Detected size of raw disk '/dev/zvol/tank/fbsd7_q64' is <NULL>, an invalid value The raw disk vmdk file was not created 2. it would be nice if VBoxGuestAdditions.iso was included (perhaps as a port option) 3. not sure if it is a feature of virtualbox in general or a porting artifact - my (Intel) 64-bit CPU doesn't support VT-x and as a result can execute only 32-bit guests. There doesn't seem to be any fallback strategy for 64-bit guests. BTW in System/Acceleration tab "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" is shown as greyed out but checked - this was confusing. 4. Minor annoyance - in VirtualBox GUI some text fields get partially "blacked out" after mouse click in them. -- Andriy Gapon
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