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Re: NetBSD current and virtualbox .. not a good place right now



George Michaelson wrote:

> 
> OSX VirtualBox 2.1.4, NetBSD current as of a few days back. Not  
> playing nice.
> 
> Tried ACPI disable/enable
> 
> Tried VT-X enable/disable
> 
> Tried boot with/without ACPI/SMP at boot prompt.
> 
> range of runtime shell/other coredumps, also kernel panics, also  
> crashes VirtualBox.
> 
> Seems a shame that a freely available virtualizer like this can't be  
> used to run NetBSD guests.
> 
> (OpenBSD, FreeBSD also have issues. I'm not trying to apportion blame)
> 
> -G

I have generally found Virtualbox to be incorrectly owkring with anything,
but the few supported OSes. On Windows I usually use VirtualPC which is also 
free.

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