Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:17:16 -0400 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro Message-ID: <C9BA668B.125B3%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <20110331191001.3e0877e3.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 3/31/11 1:10 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: >On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0100, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> >wrote: >>On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote: >>> On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: >>>> There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a >>>> FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox. >>> >>> Nitpick: the web site says >>> >>> > VirtualBSD is a virtual appliance for VMware >>> >>Following myself up, Polytropon was technically correct as the FAQ says >> > VirtualBSD is somewhat compatible with VirtualBox, but not right away >> > and not easily. >>but I suspect the level of effort needed is going to put people off >>trying it. Isn't VMware more common than VBox on most systems anyway? > >Thanks for stating that; in fact, I was confusing VMWare >and VirtualBox while typing. :-) I've no experience with VirtualBSD. But I can say that VBox comes with host configs for FreeBSD 32 and 64 clients. Yesterday I fed the FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE Disk 1 ISO into VBox and it installed very nicely. Network even came up with DHCP.
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