Quoth Chip Camden on Thursday, 05 August 2010: > Quoth Brandon Gooch on Thursday, 05 August 2010: > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, kalin m <ka...@el.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > hi all.. > > > > > > just wondering how mature is virtualbox to be used with freebsd - either > > > as > > > host or as guest. is viable to be used in production environment? > > > > > > > >From my experience (running the latest 3.2.6 on 8.1-RELEASE, 8-STABLE, > > and 9-CURRENT) as both host and guest systems, YES. > > > > I'm also using 32- and 64-bit Windows and Linux guests; performance > > and stability are very, very good. > > > > Please try VirtualBox for yourself -- I think you will be pleased with > > the effort that's been put in to the port by the developers :) > > > > -Brandon > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > I'll second that. I haven't used FreeBSD as a guest yet, but as a host > VirtualBox performs very nicely, and (touch wood) I haven't had any > problems with using Windows 7 and Windows XP as guests. I'm on amd64 > FreeBSD, and I've run both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows guests. >
Just to follow up, as part of my Bugathon participation I created a VM with
8.1-RELEASE as a guest for testing. The i386 version is running like a champ.
I
couldn't get the amd64 iso to boot under VirtualBox, though. It just
appeared to hang after loading most of the system -- sorry, I don't have
a log.
When running Xorg under VirtualBox, I had to add the following to
xorg.conf to get the keyboard and mouse to respond:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"
EndSection
Everything else worked out of the box (so to speak).
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