virtualbox

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Adam Vande More on Sunday, 08 August 2010:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com>wrote:
> 
> > Just to follow up, as part of my Bugathon participation I created a VM with
> > 8.1-RELEASE as a guest for testing.  The i386 version is running like a
> > champ.  I
> > couldn't get the amd64 iso to boot under VirtualBox, though.  It just
> > appeared to hang after loading most of the system -- sorry, I don't have
> > a log.
> >
> 
> I have a number of freebsd amd64 guests working fine, are you sure ostype is
> set correctly?  You can get symptoms like yours if you're trying to boot
> amd64 when the vbox cpu is set to 32.
> 
> -- 
> Adam Vande More


Doh!  That was it -- thanks.  I now have both 32-bit and a 64-bit guest
FreeBSD systems.

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Sterling (Chip) Camden    | sterling at camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F
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