Confusion About "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox"

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 28 18:20:09 UTC 2009


Ivan Voras wrote:
> Ryan Ware wrote:
>> Maybe someone here can distribute some enlightenment.  In the press 
>> release for 8.0 it says, "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in 
>> VirtualBox".  I understand what the host mode support is with the 
>> VirtualBox port.  What I don't understand is what support for guest 
>> mode is.  I don't see anything anywhere about guest additions.  As far 
>> as I can tell, guest support seems to consist of simply allowing the 
>> kernel to run in VirtualBox.  Am I missing something?
> 
> AFAIK no, that's it.

Actually, it looks like the newest version (will arrive to ports soon) 
has guest tools/additions for FreeBSD.



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