Dragonfly under VirtualBox?

Louis-Frédéric Feuillette jebnor at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 17:53:18 PDT 2009


I just double checked, this hardware is a Coreduo, not a Core2duo so
that may be it.  But oddly VirtualBox checks (and shades out) the
VT-x/AMD-V box.  This probably means that option isn't available to me.

Thanks anyway Antonio.

Any other suggestions?

-Jebnor

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 02:28 +0200, Antonio Huete Jimenez wrote:
> It works here on a Core2Duo on Windows XP host, with only ACPI and
> VT-x/AMD-V activated. Make sure that virtualization extension are
> properly enabled in your BIOS (if proceeds).
> 
> 
> Antonio
> 
> 2009/6/11 Louis-Frédéric Feuillette <jebnor at gmail.com>:
> > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 01:15 +0200, Antonio Huete Jimenez wrote:
> >> Hi Louis,
> >>
> >> Have you enabled the VT-x/AMD-V option in VirtualBox? It will only be
> >> available in the case your processor has virtualization extensions
> >> (Intel Core2duo/Core2quad and AMD Athlon64 x2 among others).
> >>
> >> I haven't been able to run DFBSD in VBox without it.
> >
> > Yes, I'm running an Intel Core2duo with VT-x/AMD-v enabled.
> > Are there any particular networking/drive/etc.. configs that are
> > required for dfly to work?  Below I have appended my dfly.xml file from
> > VirtualBox for reference.
> >
> > Jebnor
> >
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <!-- Sun VirtualBox Machine Configuration -->
> > <VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings"
> > version="1.7-linux">
> >  <Machine uuid="{260d9718-cc2d-47ab-953d-43153b1fdc4f}" name="dfly"
> > OSType="FreeBSD" lastStateChange="2009-06-10T22:35:05Z">
> >    <ExtraData>
> >      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SaveMountedAtRuntime" value="yes"/>
> >      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastCloseAction" value="powerOff"/>
> >      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/LastWindowPostion"
> > value="276,73,720,447"/>
> >      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Fullscreen" value="off"/>
> >      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/Seamless" value="off"/>
> >      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/AutoresizeGuest" value="on"/>
> >    </ExtraData>
> >    <Hardware>
> >      <CPU count="1">
> >        <HardwareVirtEx enabled="true"/>
> >      </CPU>
> >      <Memory RAMSize="1024"/>
> >      <Boot>
> >        <Order position="1" device="DVD"/>
> >        <Order position="2" device="HardDisk"/>
> >      </Boot>
> >      <Display VRAMSize="16" monitorCount="1" accelerate3D="false"/>
> >      <RemoteDisplay enabled="false" port="3389" authType="Null"/>
> >      <BIOS>
> >        <ACPI enabled="false"/>
> >        <IOAPIC enabled="false"/>
> >        <Logo fadeIn="true" fadeOut="true" displayTime="0"/>
> >        <BootMenu mode="MessageAndMenu"/>
> >        <TimeOffset value="0"/>
> >        <PXEDebug enabled="false"/>
> >      </BIOS>
> >      <DVDDrive passthrough="false">
> >        <Image uuid="{1d5f7892-85f9-41ca-ab0a-f39b4f712e64}"/>
> >      </DVDDrive>
> >      <FloppyDrive enabled="true"/>
> >      <USBController enabled="false" enabledEhci="true"/>
> >      <Network>
> >        <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027F54017"
> > cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973">
> >          <NAT/>
> >        </Adapter>
> >        <Adapter slot="1" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027E81465"
> > cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
> >        <Adapter slot="2" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800274BCD36"
> > cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
> >        <Adapter slot="3" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027452351"
> > cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
> >        <Adapter slot="4" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800277A44EA"
> > cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
> >        <Adapter slot="5" enabled="false" MACAddress="08002792FB1A"
> > cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
> >        <Adapter slot="6" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800270133EE"
> > cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
> >        <Adapter slot="7" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027DCCEFE"
> > cable="true" speed="0" type="82540EM"/>
> >      </Network>
> >      <UART>
> >        <Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4"
> > hostMode="Disconnected"/>
> >        <Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x3f8" IRQ="4"
> > hostMode="Disconnected"/>
> >      </UART>
> >      <LPT>
> >        <Port slot="0" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4"/>
> >        <Port slot="1" enabled="false" IOBase="0x378" IRQ="4"/>
> >      </LPT>
> >      <AudioAdapter controller="AC97" driver="Pulse" enabled="false"/>
> >      <SharedFolders/>
> >      <Clipboard mode="Bidirectional"/>
> >      <Guest memoryBalloonSize="0" statisticsUpdateInterval="0"/>
> >      <GuestProperties>
> >        <GuestProperty name="/VirtualBox/HostInfo/GUI/LanguageID"
> > value="C" timestamp="1244672986904860000" flags=""/>
> >      </GuestProperties>
> >    </Hardware>
> >    <StorageControllers>
> >      <StorageController name="IDE" type="PIIX4" PortCount="2">
> >        <AttachedDevice type="HardDisk" port="0" device="0">
> >          <Image uuid="{021dea7e-daca-464e-a0d2-de26c1355109}"/>
> >        </AttachedDevice>
> >      </StorageController>
> >    </StorageControllers>
> >  </Machine>
> > </VirtualBox>
> >
> >






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