Re: VirtualBox

From: <tuexen_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 17:28:49 UTC
> On 22. May 2023, at 19:16, Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/22/23 12:10, tuexen@fh-muenster.de wrote:
>>> On 22. May 2023, at 18:58, rb@gid.co.uk wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>>> On 22 May 2023, at 17:36, Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/22/23 10:55, Bob Bishop wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> On 18 May 2023, at 16:33, Alex Samorukov <samm@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2023/05/18 15:58, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>>>>>>> VirtualBox is x86 emu.
>>>>>>> Yes, and it now runs on Mac/Arm64 as of version 7, but it
>>>>>>> is known to of shakey alpha quality.
>>>>>> But i think it still emulates x86, so probably will be damned slow. I think on MacOS using qemu is a best way to run FreeBSD, of course aarch64. I found performance very good, as well as stability.
>>>>> Parallels also works very well, if you don’t mind paying.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Bob Bishop
>>>>> rb@gid.co.uk
>>>> 
>>>> On Apple silicon?
>>> 
>>> Yup. dmesg for 13.1-R/arm64 under Parallels below.
>> VMWare Fusion also runs FreeBSD on Macs with ARM CPUs natively.
> 
> Did you guys have to do anything special to install it, or just boot from an ISO?
You can install it from the ISO. However, I only use the cli, so I haven't installed a GUI.

Best regards
Michael
> 
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