Solved help running my first vm: FreeBSD guest in win10

[debguy]

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...dy-current-opinions-please.66089/#post-389271

I can now ask a more to the point question

I want to run FreeBSD image in windows 10 VM, quemu I was asking.

> sir dice: Why not use Windows' own Hyper-V? Or VirtualBox? FreeBSD will run fine on either.

Q1: I think Hyper-V is "requires pro upgrade". i'm not ready for that step yet. is VB or Qemu ok? I already dl'ed "qemu for win10" but didn't try an image yet.

I assume I just get an image and start qemu.

Q2: this was suggested: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/11.1-RELEASE/i386/Latest/

Anyone have advice commandline options for VM (qemu)?

I know qemu has a ton of options I have no idea where to start to get things running "fine" (at least partly accelerated), options that FreeBSD likes?

qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel kernel -nographic -append 'console=ttyS0' disk.img

qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel kernel -nographic -append 'console=ttyS0' disk.img
qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel loader -nographic -append disk.img

Does that emulate (core2) on a (core2) accelerated and all? Or is that over-simplified?

 

[SirDice]

Handbook: 21.5. FreeBSD as a Guest on VirtualBox™

I suggest downloading an ISO image and use that to boot the VM. Then you can follow the 'standard' installation procedure.

 

[debguy]

Thanks. I still haven't yet found the 'standard' procedure for starting up Qemu with freebsd as guest. That's why I asked.

I found after asking the .cow2 image runs easy without any qemu options.

I haven't tried X11 but I'm impressed that networking was working "out of the box".

qemu-system-x86_64 disk.img

As far as setup, I found getting X running on a laptop pretty easy using the Handbook, which I think is excellently written, and can see the same would apply.