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Friday, December 12, 2008

Installing *BSD under VirtualBox

I managed to install FreeBSD and OpenBSD under VirtualBox. With NetBSD I gave up :-(. Here are some tips:

This is a good general OpenBSD tutorial
If you get the following message with OpenBSD:
```
uid 0 on /: file system full
/: write failed, file system is full
Segmentation fault
```
The solution described by this VB ticket might help you. Specifically you need run the machine from the command line with the -noraw0 switch.
For FreeBSD choose the PCne-PCI II network card (instead of III) and 10BaseT as your media type if you want your networking to work
A quick starter for NetBSD: it fails to ping the DNS server in NAT mode (10.0.2.3), but the network still works, so you can go ahead with the install.

3 comments:

Karel Gardas12:32 AM
Hello,
please write what version of VBox you are using and if you are running it on VT-x/AMD-V capable hardware with hardware virtualization support switched on.
Thanks!
Karel
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Cd-MaN9:44 AM
VirtualBox 2.0.6 (the "free as in beer" version") on Windows XP SP3 on a Core 2 Duo with VT-x support.

The settings are as follows:
FreeBSD: ACPI, VT-x and PAE enabled
NetBSD: ACPI, IO APIC, VT-x and PAE enabled
OpenBSD: only ACPI enabled (also, run from the command line as I mentioned in the post)
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Randolf Richardson1:45 PM
This still isn't working. It sure would be nice if the current version of VirtualBox could handle NetBSD 5.
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