Re: VirtualBox

From: Jason Bacon <bacon4000_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 16:36:14 UTC 
On 5/22/23 10:55, Bob Bishop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> On 18 May 2023, at 16:33, Alex Samorukov <samm@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2023/05/18 15:58, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>>> VirtualBox is x86 emu.
>>> Yes, and it now runs on Mac/Arm64 as of version 7, but it
>>> is known to of shakey alpha quality.
>> But i think it still emulates x86, so probably will be damned slow. I think on MacOS using qemu is a best way to run FreeBSD, of course aarch64. I found performance very good, as well as stability.
> 
> Parallels also works very well, if you don’t mind paying.
> 
> --
> Bob Bishop
> rb@gid.co.uk

On Apple silicon?

I've run FreeBSD under Parallels, VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, and Qemu.

VirtualBox seems to be the only one with guest additions to support 
mouse integration, desktop resizing, etc.  The others all work, and I 
added what support I could for them to sysutils/desktop-installer.

I would think supporting VirtualBox aarch64 should not be too difficult. 
  It appears to use mostly the same virtualized devices as the x86 edition.

First step would seem to be enabling boot from the FreeBSD aarch64 ISO.

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