On 3/31/11 1:10 PM, "Polytropon" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:33:09 +0100, Arthur Chance <[email protected]> >wrote: >>On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote: >>> On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: >>>> There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a >>>> FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox. >>> >>> Nitpick: the web site says >>> >>> > VirtualBSD is a virtual appliance for VMware >>> >>Following myself up, Polytropon was technically correct as the FAQ says >> > VirtualBSD is somewhat compatible with VirtualBox, but not right away >> > and not easily. >>but I suspect the level of effort needed is going to put people off >>trying it. Isn't VMware more common than VBox on most systems anyway? > >Thanks for stating that; in fact, I was confusing VMWare >and VirtualBox while typing. :-)
I've no experience with VirtualBSD. But I can say that VBox comes with host configs for FreeBSD 32 and 64 clients. Yesterday I fed the FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE Disk 1 ISO into VBox and it installed very nicely. Network even came up with DHCP. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
