Re: Installing NetBSD on Virtual Box

[Alt <alt%altamiranus.info@localhost>]

There were known issues in the past using VirtualBox with Windows as
the host and NetBSD as the guest.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:03:50PM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a new user. I want to install NetBSD on a virtual machine
>> (Virtual Box) so I can experiment with it a little. I downloaded the
>> 5.0.2 ISO and I booted my VM from that ISO. I chose option 1 "Install
>> NetBSD" and soon after I found myself staring at a nasty-looking error
>> in place of an installer. Here are the last few messages:
>
> This was fixed in VirtualBox a long time ago.  Maybe they did not actually
> fix it for some of their feature combinations which they set per-CPU.
>
> What is the exact host CPU, and does it support VT-x/AMD-V?
>
> VirtualBox 3.2.g works great for me with NetBSD-5 on an Intel Core 2 Duo
> system with OS/X host OS and the NetBSD VM configured like this:
>
>        Operating System:       BSD
>        Version:                NetBSD
>        Processors:             2
>        VT-X/AMD-V:             Enabled
>        Nested Paging:          Disabled
>        Enable I/O APIC:        yes
>        Enable PAE/NX:          yes
>
> This is with the i386 port of NetBSD but I have tested the amd64 port in
> the past and it worked, too.
>
> Thor
>



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