Re: how to run bhyve and virtualbox at the same time
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:34:23 UTC
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 4:00 PM Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote: > On 26.06.2022 20:43, Mario Marietto wrote: > > Hello to everyone. > > > > Just for educational purposes I've virtualized MacOS Monterey with > Virtualbox in FreeBSD : > > > > Screenshot_2022-06-26_15-32-51.jpg > > > > Now,the problem is that Virtualbox supports only USB 1.0 speed devices > because it does not support the USB 3.0/3.1 plugin/addon and since I use a > lot of USB disks and I transfer data between them,I can't have a low level > speed like that. So,I've thought of some ideas to overcome the problem. > > If you need to pass USB disk only (not other kinds of USB devices), then > USB pass-through is not only way, there is another one: > you can pass block device without performance hit. > > Optionally, in the /etc/devfs.rules: > > [localrules=10] > add path 'da*' mode 0660 group vboxusers > > So, any CAM-supported disks including USB-attached is writable by > vboxusers group. > > Then create VMDK link to actual device: > > $ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename $HOME/usbdisk.vmdk > -rawdisk /dev/da1 > > Then attach VMDK to the VM as fixed HDD. > > > You don't need to go that far. You can share any local mounted disk with the virtualbox SharedFolder option. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!]