Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:15:04 -0400 From: Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Virtualbox questions .... Message-ID: <17B34099-0BA8-48A5-80E4-788935F004A2@kraus-haus.org> In-Reply-To: <53FF4E13.6060703@hiwaay.net> References: <53FF4E13.6060703@hiwaay.net>
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On Aug 28, 2014, at 11:43, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> = wrote: > I just pkg-installed virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-additions = virtualbox-ose-kmod & whatever they wanted as dependencies. I followed = most of the directions at = https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-= host-virtualbox.html, until I got down to the part about changing = permissions for |/dev/vboxnetctl .... there is no such animal on my box = (FBSD 9.3 64-bit, new install) .... I skipped down to launch virtualbox, = which failed as root because of no display set, but worked as regular = user (I am su'ed into root from regular user, not console logged in, = that may be the problem) .... Is anyone using VBox under FBSD 9.3 (w/ = desktop, XFCE or other) to run Win7 VM's ? Any = advice/gotchas/wisdom/etc. :-) ? TIA =85.| I am using VirtualBox under 9.x. You only need to change permissions if you are running VMs as users = *other* than root. All of my systems are servers and run the VMs as = root, so I have not had to change any permissions. If you are going to run the GUI, you need to give it access to your = display. I generally log in as root (most of the time via VNC) and the = GUI works fine. I am running a combination of Windows Server 2008R2, FreeBSD 9.x, = FreeBSD 10.0, OpenSuse 12.x without any issues. I do have a problem on = certain hardware running OpenSuSE 13.x (and other Linux distributions = based on the came kernel), they hang on boot and I have not been able to = track it down. I only run Linux when I need to, so the vast majority of = my Unix-like VMs are FreeBSD. -- Paul Kraus paul@kraus-haus.org
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