Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:41:16 +0000 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> To: Ross Nelson <ross.nelson@me.com> Cc: Jiandong Lu <lujiandong1001@yahoo.com.cn>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtual machine on mac os x 10.6 to run FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <EC28027B-B007-4932-ABB2-594E657CE632@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <EF14CBB5-9046-4613-93F9-26D948BEC239@me.com> References: <90780.64921.qm@web15704.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> <E42B167E-DA0F-42E7-BCAF-7BD7B6641AA7@gid.co.uk> <86pr2rjjuy.fsf@ds4.des.no> <EF14CBB5-9046-4613-93F9-26D948BEC239@me.com>
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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 <rb@gid.co.uk> writes: >>> Jiandong Lu <lujiandong1001@yahoo.com.cn> 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
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