[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Tomasz CEDRO <tomek at cedro.info> writes:

[...]

> Another problem is the VirtualBox virtualization that is not really
> usable anymore. I am aware of closed-source VBox Guest Additions
> problem. My VM works fine for a first minute or two but then it stops
> when I start working on it. With DRM and Framebuffer X11 drivers so it

My experience is that you have to enable "Use Host I/O Cache" for the
SATA storage controller, otherwise it will lock up sooner or later.  It
seems to not be the default.  With it enabled, I don't have any issues.

[...]

Bengt