[vbox-dev] Here are the alternatives to VirtualBox for FreeBSD host machines

Alexey Eremenko al4321 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 20:09:51 GMT 2008


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/6 Klaus Espenlaub <Klaus.Espenlaub at sun.com> wrote:
>> You can forget about running VirtualBox in Linux compatibility mode. The
>> driver won't work.
>
> If you insist on using FreeBSD as a host OS for virtualization, you
> can use qemu + kqemu.  See http://wiki.freebsd.org/qemu .  Or you can
> can use certain old versions of VMware Workstation.  See
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-host.html
> .
>
> Or just get rid of FreeBSD, install Linux, and use that as a host OS.  :)

Better yet, port VirtualBox to FreeBSD. Current port is incomplete and
doesn't works.

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"




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