FreeBSD in VB

moonlight · Post by **moonlight** » 19. May 2007, 15:15

FreeBSD 6.2 panics in box

Did anybody installed FreeBSD successfully?
Is FreeBSD supported or support planned?

achimha · Post by **achimha** » 19. May 2007, 17:08

The next version will provide support for FreeBSD 6.2.

chb · Post by **chb** » 20. May 2007, 11:45

How about OpenBSD?- this Bug report[1] is rather old and still not fixed. So if I can help in some way to fix this bug - please let me know.

[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/192

sherekhan · Post by **sherekhan** » 22. May 2007, 20:37

chb wrote:How about OpenBSD?- this Bug report[1] is rather old and still not fixed. So if I can help in some way to fix this bug - please let me know.

[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/192

I installed VB 1.3.8 on a computer running CentOS 4 yesterday, and I tried installing both NetBSD 3.1 and OpenBSD 4.0 on it. Both failed, spitting out segmentation faults and errors about not being able to write to the disk. I also tried both dynamic and fixed disks images.

Here's some output from my attempt at installing OpenBSD:

(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? i

/: write failed, file system is full
Segmentation fault
#mkdir /test; mount /dev/wd0a /test; df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/rd0a 3423 2930 493 86% /
/dev/wd0a 1479772 2760 1403024 0% /test

This is using a VM with 64 MB RAM and a roughly 750 MB hard disk image.

razor1394 · Post by **razor1394** » 10. Jun 2007, 18:44

FreeBSD 6.2 works fine for me with 1.4.0 on GNU/Linux host.

airman99 · Post by **airman99** » 20. Jun 2007, 17:23

FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE works fine for me running under VirtualBox 1.4.0 using a Gentoo host.

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However, FreeBSD does have an unusually high CPU utilization (~80-90%) compared to other VMs: WinXP ~10%, Debian ~10%.

scubanator87 · Post by **scubanator87** » 1. Jul 2007, 17:08

As mentioned before, ~80-90% CPU utilization

Also excess ram consumption. I gave the guest 384MB ram and i was looking at about 700MB ram used. I dropped it down to 256MB and i am still seeing 700MB Used.

Running FreeBSD 6.2 as guest and Fedora 7 as host. Virtualbox 1.4.0

I have a Gig or ram and a 2.0 GZ Pentium M and a 128MB ATI card.

Anyone know if shared folders work?

Post by **stefan.becker** » 1. Jul 2007, 17:16

Shared Folders works only for Linux Guest oder Win 2K/XP/Vista Guests.

Otherwise you can user NFS / Samba / Windows Shares.

scubanator87 · Post by **scubanator87** » 1. Jul 2007, 21:52

Thanks. Is there any plan to make FreeBSD or other Unicies to support the shared folder and other benefits?

airman99 · Post by **airman99** » 2. Jul 2007, 06:42

BTW, I was able to drop my CPU utilization for a Gentoo Linux guest OS from ~80-90% down to ~2-5% by recompiling the kernel and setting the timer frequency down to 100Hz instead of 1KHz. FYI...

See this topic:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... highlight=

eNTer · Post by **eNTer** » 22. Jan 2008, 12:35

Hello

Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE/i386 on VB with WinXP host?

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