qemu-devel - no kvm accelerator

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Beeblebrox <zaphod at berentweb.com> wrote:
> I like and have used VirtualBox in the past, so no problems in that sense.
> Per your suggestion I switched to vbox and it all seems to work fine,
> including networking behind the PF firewall. I have 2 small issues
> remaining:
>
> 1. I will probably need to share files between the vm and host. vbox wants
> "Guest Additions" to be installed for this. However,
> emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions is not installable on the same platform
> as emulators/virtualbox-ose. What is the solution to this?

You need to install virtualbox-ose on the Host and virtualbox-ose-additions
inside FreeBSD guests. Shared Folders work fine with Windows and Linux
guests but for FreeBSD guests there is no support yet. So you will need to
fall back to something like scp, samba, nfs, ...

> 2. I don't understand how a client would be able to connect to the vm
> through "remote display" function. Is the process like pxe booting (using
> grub for example) over the network, with the resulting process of having
> booted into the OS provided by vbox?

The virtualbox-ose port has an VNC option which privides a VNC server per
VM that you can connect to.

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Bernhard Froehlich
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