Can't install freebsd inside virtualbox, glacially slow

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 05:04-0400, Quartz wrote:

> I can't seem to get the 10.1 installer to work under virtualbox, everything is
> so slow it's completely unusable. The dvd image takes upwards of a minute to
> even draw the opening ascii menu, and attempting to boot the kernel just sits
> there forever. If I convert the memstick img into a vdi and boot from that, I
> just get the "spinning slash" forever (it doesn't even get to the menu). I've
> tried the 'set vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed=0' trick, tried changing vb's chipset
> from PIIX3 to ICH9, tried changing the number of CPUs and ram and everything,
> but no dice. Anyone have any ideas?

Need.
More.
Input. ;-)

Maybe you need to enable hardware virtualisation support in the host.
My amd64 VMs are happy with the emulated PIIX3 chipset.
Try removing the IDE controller in the guest and replace it with the 
SATA controller.

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