Working BSD for VirtualBox

[llama]

I'd like to play with one of the 'bsd's in VirtualBox. Any recommendations?

[eaux-yeah]

That's pretty cool. I had no idea that VirtualBox could run BSD guests.
I've got NetBSD running very well on XEN, but that's the only BSD that completely works for real on XEN. XEN and FreeBSD was a huge pain, and very unstable. OpenBSD and XEN? /fugetuhboutit!

According to THIS SITE, it looks like the only one running solid on VirtualBox is OpenBSD!! Weird!
Just so happens, that's what I would have suggested .............. surprise, surprise?

Usually OpenBSD is the ONLY BSD that cannot be run in other VM apps.

I can't imagine that it could run OpenBSD and not NetBSD. NetBSD will run on anything! Really will.

Looks like I'm gonna have to play around some. Thanks for the info.

[llama]

Thanks, eaux. I am gonna get me an openbsd iso and get to fooling around. More questions to follow!

So I'm looking at a 4.1 mirror and I don't see the cd41.iso

My machine has no floppy to use. Will the cdemu41.iso work?

[eaux-yeah]

You have to create your own ISO. It's simple, really.

This is for 4.0, but works fine for 4.1
http://www.tutorial5.com/content/view/76/51

If you know IPTables any, wait till you mess with OpenBSD's PF! erfect10:

[eaux-yeah]

Originally Posted by eaux-yeah

According to THIS SITE, it looks like the only one running solid on VirtualBox is OpenBSD!!

Update, that site is create by a bunch a' big fat LIARS! Well, OK, a deliverer of half-truths.

It works with OpenBSD-3.9 and below (so I also 'hear'). OpenBSD is at 4.1 and I am NOT going to 3.9. End of that episode. It totally crapped out when attempting to format the image for OpenBSD (A6). The same exact thing happened when attempting to install NetBSD-3.1 and FreeBSD-6.2, bummer.
Slackware-11 installed painlessly, so I know everything was correct on the Qemu side.
I will say, VirtualBox is very easy to setup and get going. Maybe I'll try it again in a year?

So all of the above got me going and I had found that Qemu is also reported to be able to run *BSDs. I have only messed around with Qemu twice and that was shortly after the project began.
What a difference 1-1/2 year makes! I had Qemu and all of it's extras installed and configured (Ubuntu) in zero time. Booted immediately to an OpenBSD CD. OpenBSD was installed in about 10 minutes and *BOOM*, booted straight into the OpenBSD-4.1 VM! I am only running OBSD w/out X, but it running in Qemu is really impressive. It is much faster than what I expected it would be.

I was unable to get FreeBSD-6.2 installed via Qemu and will try NetBSD-3.1 sometime this weekend.


see, look at what you went and started, llamakc.

[llama]

Same here with OpenBSD 4.1 for me. I've never ran Slackware so I'm gonna give it a try.

[eaux-yeah]

Originally Posted by eaux-yeah

Slackware-11 installed painlessly, so I know everything was correct on the Qemu side.

D'oh!, meant to say on the VirtualBox side.

[eaux-yeah]

Anotha' update,

NetBSD-3.1 runs just great in Qemu, too.

Still having issues with FreeBSD-6.2, though.