• VirtualBox

This page details the ongoing effort of porting VirtualBox to FreeBSD.

VirtualBox has been committed to the FreeBSD portstree.

If you like to use packages please refer to i386 package and amd64 package.

Contact

The following individuals are reachable on #fbsd-mentors, irc.unixfreunde.de, or Mailinglist freebsd-emulation(at)FreeBSD.org

• decke
• dhn
• beat
• miwi
• nox

Know Issues

• Build fails if openssl is installed from ports (see here).

• Kernel panic when loading the module (sometimes reproducible but not always).

• Some ATI users report problems with GLX support (see here).

• Some features are not implemented yet:
  • Bridged and host only networking (the required kernel drivers are missing)
  • USB
  • OpenGL support
  • ACPI
  • Host CD/DVD access
  • Host serial support

Troubleshooting

• AMD64 users explicitly need COMPAT_IA32 in their kernel config
• /proc should be mounted via /etc/fstab and the vbox kernel module should be loaded via /boot/loader.conf
• Make sure you add vbox to your group

• If you cannot launch VirtualBox, even using root:

  1. Launch VirtualBox

  2. If it fails open top(1)

  3. In top(1) you should see 2(!) processes "VirtualBox"

  4. Kill one of them.
  5. The other one should start