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Date:      Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:37:03 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox - does it work for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <hj9ao8$339$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <19287.65081.250316.239094@millingtons.org>
References:  <19287.65081.250316.239094@millingtons.org>

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On 01/21/10 08:11, Glyn Millington wrote:
>
> Good Morning :-)
>
> A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_
> machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS.
>
>
> Does it work?

Yes.

> at is, do the guest additions work fully for those guests, or are
> there limitations such those I experience currently when running
> FreeBSD 8 as the guest?  (eg no access to USB, no fullscreen mode).

You are right about USB and probably about fullscreen mode. "seamless" 
mode works at least for Windows.

> Any major problems with a FreeBSDS host and Windows/Linux guest?

You might have problems with using virtual SMP.





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