Virtualbox 2.0.2 and FreeBSD 7 x64 guest install crashes

[Patrick Lamaizière]

Le Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:03:47 +0300,
Jonathan <jonathan at kc8onw.net> a écrit :

> Has anyone had any success with Virtualbox  2.0.2 and a FreeBSD 7 x64
> guest?  I've tried pretty much every available option combination but
> it consistently crashes on boot right after the loader prompt.  The
> md5 for the ISO is correct.
> 
> I'm definitely willing to put some time towards debugging it but I'm
> not sure where to start.  The Virtualbox IRC dev channel told me to
> ask the FreeBSD project but since Virtualbox itself crashes I would
> think I would have to start on their side...  I'd like to start
> somewhere.  It would be great to have a 32 bit and a 64 bit VM for
> testing purposes.

There is a know bug with FreeBSD as
guest, see http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/458

I don't know if this is fixed.

I was able to test FreeBSD 7/i386 on MacOS X but it always crashes on
sigreturn at some point.

Regards.