Re: concerns about install freebsd

On Thu, 2022-09-29 at 11:34 +0530, jian he wrote:
> I successfully installed oracle virtualbox.

Hi,

if I understand correctly your host is Linux running either Virtualbox
from a distro's repositories or from Oracle.

When using a Linux host I strongly encourage you to chose the Virtual
Machine Manager GUI to run a QEMU/KVM, instead of using Virtualbox.

I'm using Virtualbox from Oracle, not from the distro's repositories, to
hold Windows guests, since Virtualbox provides comfortable file sharing
between the Linux host and the Windows guest. For other purposes I'm in
favour of the Virtual Machine Manager GUI to run a QEMU/KVM.

Virtualbox is terribly slow and suffers from countless issues, let alone
that it occasionally breaks completely. QEMU/KVM is a way better choice,
as long as direct file sharing (or clipboard sharing) is not important.
A QEMU/KVM guest performs more or less as fast as an install on bare
metal ("bare metal" is for a regular install, such as your Linux host).

The Virtual Machine Manager GUI is as easy to use as the Virtualbox GUI,
with the exception of the mentioned sharing.

As a side note, get used to portable scripts. I rarely use file mangers
etc., I'm in favour of command line. For this purpose I like to use
bashisms, but for scripts I'm in favour to avoid bashisms.

Are you already familiar with command line and scrips? If not consider
to get used to the default login shells of your host and guest. You can
change them at any time, but as long as you are testing Linux and
FreeBSD, I would stay with the defaults.

Regards,
Ralf