Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:07:39 -0700 From: Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtualbox Message-ID: <20100808040739.GA41947@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20100806041651.GA97269@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> References: <4C5B8748.1060904@el.net> <AANLkTinyi9qYDNKcsFRb%2BQi4ahAtkUuaVHCdu2NAfMGq@mail.gmail.com> <20100806041651.GA97269@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
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--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Chip Camden on Thursday, 05 August 2010: > Quoth Brandon Gooch on Thursday, 05 August 2010: > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, kalin m <kalin@el.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > hi all.. > > > > > > just wondering how mature is virtualbox to be used with freebsd - eit= her as > > > host or as guest. is viable to be used in production environment? > > > > >=20 > > >From my experience (running the latest 3.2.6 on 8.1-RELEASE, 8-STABLE, > > and 9-CURRENT) as both host and guest systems, YES. > >=20 > > I'm also using 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux guests; performance > > and stability are very, very good. > >=20 > > Please try VirtualBox for yourself -- I think you will be pleased with > > the effort that's been put in to the port by the developers :) > >=20 > > -Brandon > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" >=20 > I'll second that. I haven't used FreeBSD as a guest yet, but as a host > VirtualBox performs very nicely, and (touch wood) I haven't had any > problems with using Windows 7 and Windows XP as guests. I'm on amd64 > FreeBSD, and I've run both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows guests. >=20 Just to follow up, as part of my Bugathon participation I created a VM with 8.1-RELEASE as a guest for testing. The i386 version is running like a cha= mp. I couldn't get the amd64 iso to boot under VirtualBox, though. It just appeared to hang after loading most of the system -- sorry, I don't have a log. When running Xorg under VirtualBox, I had to add the following to xorg.conf to get the keyboard and mouse to respond: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" EndSection Everything else worked out of the box (so to speak). --=20 Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterling@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips= .com --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMXi2LAAoJEIpckszW26+Rf40H/RFwBFok8s2Kzk3gsvOW+Vc/ 4zwe035zevti4HTL3xlOcFfa+kG560eO6YMyQlxyltSl3mQ8I26tmnJT1Xt3eAsz CU2nq7tysGsLwmE3hcneXI7KLDQaGWoaAjMCvyDP8ebLdQ92vv668V2kA7gvidAJ oRO3qKm0Uc2vjXpVMQgrihHNEj9nHYgYvs7PDiSOW8BlNQMYhupKxpZyo+eNDskF OhUIe1mAuUgxs27LuXX12yB/8UwExGQaB0RfU+Kw7wc2Yz+IeqQnUh2X6DcjoA7z BubMANcLsdAcm3BRD0j4pp/HLrbSWW6+jT3e4f3S/StSZO6wavtw2A4etkXClec= =XtGk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--
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