Hi Well, I'm very fresh to virtualbox. That was a disclaimer.
I wanted to try upgrade procedure for one of my FreeBSD based servers. So I downloaded latest virtualbox (my host OS is Ubuntu Linux), created new VM dedicated for FreeBSD. I installed latest FreeBSD 8-REL using ISO image from FreeBSD site. With no problems. Then I downloaded cpio backups from my server (which runs FreeBSD 6.2). Just for test I ran (as root) the command: cpio -iumd < backup.cpio (extract, preserve modification time, create directories, overwrite files) And then I found a lot of errors, that cpio is unable to create files, etc. After it finished, some of the files were restored ok, some not. E.g. /usr/local/bin/bash was restored correctly, while /usr/local/bin/zip was restored with contents of html file from Berkeley DB documentation! It sounds crazy, but I repeated above steps twice, every time some files were corrupted. I did test cpio backup on my linux box, it was extracted with no problems and errors. Has anybody got any clue what was wrong? It looks like virtualbox VM cannot handle FreeBSD file operations correctly. -- Mikolaj Rydzewski <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Vbox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
