virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 03:06:04 UTC 2012


On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:10 AM, <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:

> Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> > > I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host.
> >
> > This would be your problem.
>
> How so?  Surely virtualbox _should_ be able to hand off a VT to the
> XP guest, for it to use as a keyboard, mouse, and display.  (This
> supposes that the FreeBSD box in question _has_ a keyboard, mouse,
> and display, and thus has a VT that it can hand off.)


I see what you are saying but that isn't possible currently with
Virtualbox.  The closest piece of tech I know of the OP's request is Xen
VGA passthrough.

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Adam Vande More


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