ISO not working for me in VirtualBox

[gabescarbrough]

I'm new to *BSD but I've run Ubuntu and Debian in VirtualBox before from ISO files.

When I create a FreeBSD VM and try to boot from the r0.2.0-12.2 or r0.2.0-13.0 ISO files I'm just getting a dumb terminal.

Any idea what's going on? I imagine a decent amount of people looking to try out hello would take it for a spin in a VM.

macOS is my daily driver but I agree with a lot of the design philosophy and while I am fond of Linux and have contemplated switching full-time I do agree that the UX of most distros is lacking and the desktop landscape is pretty fragmented.

Any help getting hello running would be great, whether just pointing me in the right direction or adding info to the wiki. Definitely seems like an interesting project and would potentially be interested in contributing after I have a chance to check it out if I can figure out some way to help.

[probonopd]

Which host machine and OS are you using? What I can say is that for me it works in VirtualBox on a FreeBSD host.

[probonopd]

Can you boot in verbose mode and see what happens?

[gabescarbrough]

I'm running macOS Catalina 10.15.4 on a 13" Macbook Pro 2015.

I got it to boot. A couple things I was doing wrong that I realized once I tried verbose mode and read what was going on.

1. The VM needed to be 64-bit (I'll chalk this up to trying this before bed last night)
2. The VM needed 4gb of RAM which was higher than VirtualBox's default
3. The boot process takes longer than I expected coming from macOS and Linux so without boot -v I didn't realize it was still going

[gabescarbrough]

Thanks for the help!

[probonopd]

I am trying to reduce boot time significantly...