Virtualbox 2.0.2 and FreeBSD 7 x64 guest install crashes

[Jonathan]

Patrick Lamaizière wrote:
> Le Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:03:47 +0300,
> Jonathan <jonathan at kc8onw.net> a écrit :
>
>> Has anyone had any success with Virtualbox  2.0.2 and a FreeBSD 7 x64
>> guest?  I've tried pretty much every available option combination but
>> it consistently crashes on boot right after the loader prompt.  The
>> md5 for the ISO is correct.
>>
>> I'm definitely willing to put some time towards debugging it but I'm
>> not sure where to start.  The Virtualbox IRC dev channel told me to
>> ask the FreeBSD project but since Virtualbox itself crashes I would
>> think I would have to start on their side...  I'd like to start
>> somewhere.  It would be great to have a 32 bit and a 64 bit VM for
>> testing purposes.
>
> There is a know bug with FreeBSD as
> guest, see http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/458
>
> I don't know if this is fixed.
>
> I was able to test FreeBSD 7/i386 on MacOS X but it always crashes on
> sigreturn at some point.

With 1.6.2 I was able to work around this by enabling hardware
virtualization support but with Virtualbox 2.0.2 it crashes on startup
now.  It seems Virtualbox doesn't like something about Freebsd's boot
loader on i386 or amd64.

Jonathan