I am trying to find a virtual machine in which I can run FreeBSD effectively. This will be on Win7 64-bit. I am very dissatisfied so far, and I am soliciting advice on how to proceed.
The newest Gneome version does not work. Fortunately I had a VM on another computer that could be transferred. I want to put email into Evolution, and I have about 3GB of email messages that I wish to transfer. Evolution is not stable in its current form, though the one that comes with 2.28 seems to be OK.
I have used VMware Player 3.1, but the audio does not work right. VMware tools do not work for FreeBSD with this version, and while the open-source tools work OK for the mouse and monitor, the sound does not.
Reverting to VMware Player 3.0.1, the audio works, but only for a short time. I have not been able to get through a complete YouTube video without the Ethernet card freezing. Right now I am using a decent em adapter (the Intel gigabyte card) in lieu of the Realtek nonsense that comes with the motherboard. So this too is broken.
Virtualbox does not seem to have FreeBSD guest additions for a Win7 system (or any others, it seems).
How on earth can one install an effective desktop VM for FreeBSD? I'd like to have my email on it, be able to do "risky" browsing (including Flash), and have access to the many documents I have formatted with groff. But nothing seems to work right, at least not completely.
I'm trying to use 8.0-RELEASE p2 and a recent version of Gnome. It is not an option to run on raw hardware, since I need too many PDF and image tools that simply do not exist on FreeBSD.
The newest Gneome version does not work. Fortunately I had a VM on another computer that could be transferred. I want to put email into Evolution, and I have about 3GB of email messages that I wish to transfer. Evolution is not stable in its current form, though the one that comes with 2.28 seems to be OK.
I have used VMware Player 3.1, but the audio does not work right. VMware tools do not work for FreeBSD with this version, and while the open-source tools work OK for the mouse and monitor, the sound does not.
Reverting to VMware Player 3.0.1, the audio works, but only for a short time. I have not been able to get through a complete YouTube video without the Ethernet card freezing. Right now I am using a decent em adapter (the Intel gigabyte card) in lieu of the Realtek nonsense that comes with the motherboard. So this too is broken.
Virtualbox does not seem to have FreeBSD guest additions for a Win7 system (or any others, it seems).
How on earth can one install an effective desktop VM for FreeBSD? I'd like to have my email on it, be able to do "risky" browsing (including Flash), and have access to the many documents I have formatted with groff. But nothing seems to work right, at least not completely.
I'm trying to use 8.0-RELEASE p2 and a recent version of Gnome. It is not an option to run on raw hardware, since I need too many PDF and image tools that simply do not exist on FreeBSD.