FreeBSD 8.1 as a Virtualbox Guest OS
Paul Schmehl
pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Tue Feb 8 18:08:23 UTC 2011
--On February 8, 2011 10:24:47 AM -0600 Adam Vande More
<amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Paul Schmehl
> <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to setup a FreeBSD VM in Virtualbox. The host OS is Mac OS X
>> 10.6.6. I'm already running Windows 7 64 bit with no problems. When you
>> setup a new VM, you get a first time startup scenario that asks you to
>> point to a file (iso usually) that contains the setup program for the
>> OS. Then, when you boot the machine, setup begins.
>>
>> That's not working for me. I've tried both the disc iso and the dvd iso
>> without success. I haven't tried it, but I assume that if I burned the
>> iso and popped it in a box that I would get the setup menu and be able to
>> install the OS.
>>
>> Is there some kind of trick required to get this working inside VB?
>>
>
> What's the difference between a disk iso and a dvd iso?
My assumption is that the former is in CD format and the latter is in DVD
format. I wouldn't think a vm would care either way. It should be able to
read both.
> From the VM's
> settings page, chose storage. Make sure the virtual DVD drive has the
> correct iso. Start the VM. If you can't find the iso in the drop down
> list it means you have to add it to the storage manager. You could also
> put the disc in the drive and and tell the VM to use the drive.
>
The iso was listed as secondary IDE, so I made it primary. No difference.
I then tried booting with ACPI disabled due to the errors I was seeing, but
that made no difference either. The system is booting, but when it gets to
md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff80e6aa98 it
stops and goes no further.
> It's not anymore complicated than that really. If that doesn't work, I'd
> start looking at the disc and see if works.
I'm not using a disc. I'm using an iso file.
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