DFBSD2 and virtualbox no compatible?

Thu Jul 31 12:05:31 PDT 2008

On Thu, July 31, 2008 19:58, Sdävtaker wrote:
> Hello,
> I was trying to install a DFBSD2 in virtualbox (sun's virtual machine)
> and it doesnt boot, acpi or not acpi the same. I was hitting some config
> params, but nothing changes. Did someone tried it before? I used to
> install some VMwarez with DFBSD1.x with not problems, but company is
> migrating the virtualization software to sun's virtualbox for some
> licences issue. Any idea what can be wrong?

They have a bug in their PIT implementation, and they don't seem to care
to fix it.  A bug report has already been opened, and comments in the code
indicate that they know about the problem.

cheers
  simon