--On February 8, 2011 10:24:47 AM -0600 Adam Vande More
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Paul Schmehl
<[email protected]>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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Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
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