From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 13:23:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E631065670 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:23:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826708FC1D for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:23:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o2QDN96i024849 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:23:09 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BACB53D.70708@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:23:09 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jiandong Lu References: <90780.64921.qm@web15704.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <90780.64921.qm@web15704.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtual machine on mac os x 10.6 to run FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:23:16 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/03/2010 12:41:57, Jiandong Lu wrote: > I have a macbook pro,and I want to do hack onFreeBSD.I have tried sun > virtualbox,and failed to install FreeBSD 8 on virtualbox. Works for me. IIRC the trick was to tick the 'Enable IO APIC' check box. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkustT0ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIznCACePL2KVgPN+qLDBHF3XwX2MynN xZQAmgLIE3uAHmBCj8+h9Epc9CdbJqL/ =LABr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----