[Midnightbsd-users] MirBSD-current/i386 in VirtualBox 3.0.0_BETA1 r48728

[Thorsten Glaser]

Dixi quod…

>le1 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "AMD 79c970 PCnet-PCI" rev 0x40: irq 11

It can emulate an em(4) Intel GigE NIC (use the “Server” type) too.

>I've yet to try XFree86® inside

This works, out of the box, and out-performs my notebooks’ bare iron
with the emulated VESA graphics in 24-bit mode, despite bitching that
it wants a 32-bit mode (which the emulated VESA BIOS does *not* pro-
vide though). Since we do not have the vboxdrv to use, I gave up there.

>as well as a non-HVM installation

Immediately terminates with SIGILL – so my earlier laudat was *too*
early, and VirtualBox is *still* broken and unusable for anything
real, unless you have Vanderpool/Pacifica, in which case most are
better off using kvm anyway.

bye,
//mirabilos
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