From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 18:41:24 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 5825C106564A for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:41:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240088FC1C for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvc7 with SMTP id 7so3730947pvc.13 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:41:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:subject:mime-version :content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding :message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=t/0FjanJiG8GzZ8larhUZ6kUYE5GKHsfdX2Wiw6NeRY=; b=vkC/BinQ/YINrqtQp3H49tZZyZnQe6dRXI0dWsrnHDg7vmxf1M29JndAv5kfPzfzZF ywK4tDs/SfO6iuhDuEshV3qxfkquL01eUHHms29c3w4rW/GYVWHu03MblKUirY8sLR+K IF6GNCYf3g8PCfCZ7jfK0OyiTb+TBBh/RmTJg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=otXm6Fo1MjQ7HJln9QXfxD/9Gwweom+S683mVgh2MHKjNUgElZQ2Uyq2JUk7ENKFvi ixaus6N/zTzVzwA1CqoAK3rXbEnzDcTWSbvMBXOcw+bmS8fmDmZulENCZfqN9gr689qG vBLj3ESAs4czfOnT9QviU4De2rjB8fnFFC0cw= Received: by 10.141.100.17 with SMTP id c17mr254949rvm.0.1269628883535; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.10.2] (54.81.54.77.rev.vodafone.pt [77.54.81.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c2sm538526rvf.15.2010.03.26.11.41.19 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Rui Paulo Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Rui Paulo In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:41:16 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <90780.64921.qm@web15704.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> <86pr2rjjuy.fsf@ds4.des.no> To: Ross Nelson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: Jiandong Lu , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , 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 18:41:24 -0000 On 26 Mar 2010, at 13:41, Ross Nelson wrote: > On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >=20 >> Bob Bishop writes: >>> Jiandong Lu writes: >>>> hi,are there some virtual machines on mac os x 10.6 to run FreeBSD = 8? >>> FreeBSD 8.0 runs fine on 10.6 under Parallels 5, but that does cost = money. >>=20 >> Isn't there a free-as-in-beer edition of VMWare? >=20 > VMware Server for Windows and Linux (as well as VMware Player on = Windows) are both free as in beer, but there isn't a free VMware for = Mac. VMware Fusion is $80USD and comparable to Parallels. >=20 > I had the same problem with VirtualBox not working on OS X. FreeBSD, = QNX, Plan 9, and Windows all failed when I tried to partition and format = the virtual disk. I'll have to try the Enable IO APIC option to see if = that works for me. >=20 > Ross VirtualBox works fine last time I tried (last year) but you need to keep = playing with the options to find a configuration that works. I was never = able to use SCSI disks, for example. -- Rui Paulo