Running FreeBSD in VirtualBox

[nomko]

Hi,

Currently I'm kind of busy with distro hopping. I want to try FreeBSD in VirtualBOx under Linux Mint. But When I install it, I get nothing. FreeBSD reboots and then after the reboot I get only a sort of text-based interface. What goes wrong here? Can I run FreeBSD in VirtualBox?

 

[dave]

FreeBSD is text-based by design. If you want a GUI, try PCBSD.

 

[nomko]

FreeBSD is text-based by design. If you want a GUI, try PCBSD.

What you say means that there's no Desktop Environment available for FreeBSD?

 

[SirDice]

No, he's saying there's nothing installed by default. To get any kind of desktop environment you need to get your hands dirty.

Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports
Chapter 6 The X Window System

If you want something that'll give you a nice GUI out of the box install PC-BSD.

 

[henkka]

I couldn't get a desktop environment working with FreeBSD installed as a VirtualBox guest. The installation hanged in some place. I tried to install both from sources and using pkg_add. I didn't face such problems with a normal installation.

 

[henkka]

I couldn't get a desktop environment working with FreeBSD installed as a VirtualBox guest.

While installation of Gnome (FreeBSD as a VirtualBox guest) didn't work on my laptop and with my skills, Xfce seems to work ok. In order to have VirtualBox GuestAdditions work, one has to have sources installed as well.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html
http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox/
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29172

 

[drhowarddrfine]

Hi,

Currently I'm kind of busy with distro hopping. I want to try FreeBSD...

"Distro" is a Linux-ism that has no equivalent in BSD. Don't use that term.

 

[neilms]

I had freebsd FreeBSD up and running in Virtualbox on Ubuntu Linux in under 30 minutes. That's when I remembered how stable the system was and decided to install it natively on all my PCss again.