From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 16 21:13:02 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD189A3878 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:13:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjuanino@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x244.google.com (mail-ig0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C26410DC for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:13:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjuanino@gmail.com) Received: by igbc1 with SMTP id c1so1908223igb.3 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:13:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=w2t1541bElOoH5lU7jDMuOWqq4uuXDCjh8hJGMLABpo=; b=b7qI1lCCXLkgsdzOz1aOSywGsu/+27KjrGtPNwGjdPr5W9tcwenyPv19uIr3/P61Ym 2aUqDaBRnMZRRaIQLgKfPjPr+Yct0p6i9aX/CxwOTVUiZ5c8ksFioKKyLF2Fz0Mj6Hi7 qvaa2IwOCFeDEiaVB5KBbencRgPCrDSvJyakqfFaegJCpZtfCKUY0E6iwxN9OEI6/i20 m3AXQ28ymWhN7hWC08hdRzmq5te6ey+SiPJXhL3amEUGqy1/aNH3oo6jfAk6a/ktKBVD aFVewLjIyp2pwHP1SWiTaIaeUtJBDu5JCwjf+Bex0pm7Bx0EYFt4UfabRz6aZkRmJ3CI X1XQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.43.226 with SMTP id z2mr7242397igl.65.1437081181969; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.15.234 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:13:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <56442.128.135.70.2.1437080215.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <55A7D51D.1020605@hiwaay.net> <55A7F1DA.7040106@gmail.com> <55A8054B.7060700@hiwaay.net> <56442.128.135.70.2.1437080215.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:13:01 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 64-bit linux emulation From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zw6kgR2FyY8OtYSBKdWFuaW5v?= To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu Cc: Warren Block , "William A. Mahaffey III" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 21:13:02 -0000 On 16 July 2015 at 22:56, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > I confirm VirtualBox works perfectly on FreeBSD 10.1. As a matter of fact > I never had problems with it; used on 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 (guest systems: > Windows XP, 7, FreeBSD 8, 9, 10, CentOS 5, 6, 7, Fedora 5, 13, 16, 20, > Ubuntu 10, 14, OpenBSD 4.9, Debian 7, ReactOS,... - list is not complete) Hi, I confirm also this claim: FreeBSD 10.1 in Virtualbox is very stable and works very well as workstation: vtnet net driver works at the same level as the native Windows drivers in terms of speed and stability, and at I/O level I do not notice much difference with the Windows native performance. X window system, with virtualbox driver also performs very well with no problem at all. Clipboard sharing also works as expected, etc etc. The host operating system is Windows 7 64 bits, 8GB RAM, core I5. I am very happy with this scenario, as I have the best of the two worlds: Windows and FreeBSD (yes, Windows has some specifics advantages in some corporate environments). And I am not an ocassional user: I run the combo Windows 7 + Virtualbox + FreeBSD every day in my company. Only I have suffered some sporadic issues, but almost never FreeBSD related but Virtualbox related (and fixed very soon by VirtualBox upstream, though). Regards