I encountered a problem installing FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on VirtualBox 4.1.8, and I wanted to share my fix for it, so it can be added to the FreeBSD wiki and Handbook if appropriate.
Using the default settings of VirtualBox, the following error occurs during boot from the iso image: http://i.imgur.com/kO93X.png I'm using Kubuntu 11.10, and I installed VirtualBox from the official PPA: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib The FreeBSD ISO that I used was "FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso" The following checkbox needs to be checked in settings to be able to boot FreeBSD: Settings > System > Motherboard > Enable IO APIC With that set, everything works great: http://i.imgur.com/Kdyom.png _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
