VirtualBox - does it work for FreeBSD?

Daniel C. Dowse dcdowse at gmx.net
Thu Jan 21 10:55:19 UTC 2010


On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:11:53 +0000 at 
Glyn Millington <glyn at millingtons.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

>
>Good Morning :-)
>
>A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_
>machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS.  
>
>
>Does it work? 
>
>
>That is, do the guest additions work fully for those guests, or are
>there limitations such those I experience currently when running
>FreeBSD 8 as the guest?  (eg no access to USB, no fullscreen mode).
>Any major problems with a FreeBSDS host and Windows/Linux guest?
>
>atb

for Guest OS Windows XP Pro SP2 : 
 
I used to mount usb & disc drives, outside of VB and access the
Volumes as a SMB Network Share. Fullscreen Works after installing the
Host Utilities for Windows. 

best regards

Daniel

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