From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 16 15:37:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5E8B1496 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 275721781 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a] (saphire3.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s0GFbPDw097529 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:37:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <52D7FCB3.8030806@sentex.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:37:23 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" Subject: Booting RC5 via VirtualBox X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:37:26 -0000 I have been having mixed results importing booting the .vmdk and .vhd into virtualbox. I did get it to work once, but now cannot do it for some reason. I have been doing the following steps which seem like they should work, but I end up with "FATAL: No bootable medium found! System Halted" I download FreeBSD-10.0-RC5-i386-20140108-r260430.vhd VBoxManage convertdd FreeBSD-10.0-RC5-i386-20140108-r260430.vhd --format VDI rc5-i386.vdi VBoxManage createvm --name rc5i386 --ostype FreeBSD --register VBoxManage modifyvm rc5i386 --memory 1024 --ioapic on --cpus 1 --chipset ich9 --nic1 bridged --nictype1 82540EM --bridgeadapter1 em0 VBoxManage storagectl rc5i386 --name "SATA" --add sata --controller IntelAhci --portcount 4 VBoxManage storageattach "rc5i386" --storagectl "SATA" --port 0 --device 0 --type hdd --medium rc5-i386.vdi VBoxManage modifyvm rc5i386 --vrdeproperty VNCPassword="xxxxx" VBoxHeadless --startvm rc5i386 What am I missing ? ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/