Virtual Box on FreeBSD

Been using VirtualBox on FreeBSD since FreeBSD8, iirc. I run Windows Vista, Windows 7, CentOS, Ubuntu, Mint and PC-BSD. Frequently three at a time without issue.
 
Tried to use in production about half a year ago. It took 2 days to compile on serious hardware and was not very stable. Went back to Red Hat and then ditch all together VirtualBox for KVM. I hear that Linux containers are becoming popular which begs the question why I didn't use Jails to begin with instead of all that crap I am using? Well in part because I inherited certain setup and in part because the application we are deploying heavily depends on Java which doesn't run on FreeBSD (no rant please I am talking about Oracle Java and I do not run any Linux binary crap on FreeBSD).
I am hopping we will be able to ditch Java and run things in Jail as they should have being run to begin with.
 
The default options build Qt4 for the GUI. That can be turned off, using just VBoxManage to run it from the command line. Although the Qt stuff does not need rebuilding often, so if you sit though it once, it should be good for a while.
 
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