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Operating Systems BSD Installing FreeBSD in VirtualBox Post 302237407 by tsurko on Wednesday 17th of September 2008 03:32:49 PM
Old 09-17-2008
I also installed successfully but it doesn't work well. I get sigreturn errors during portsnap. It works perfectly with qemu however. In my opinion FreeBSD works better with qemu, but Windows is much faster under VirtualBox.
 

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QEMU-NBD(8)															       QEMU-NBD(8)

NAME
qemu-nbd - QEMU Disk Network Block Device Server SYNOPSIS
usage: qemu-nbd [OPTION]... filename DESCRIPTION
Export QEMU disk image using NBD protocol. OPTIONS
filename is a disk image filename -p, --port=port port to listen on (default B<1024>) -o, --offset=offset offset into the image -b, --bind=iface interface to bind to (default B<0.0.0.0>) -k, --socket=path Use a unix socket with path I<path> -r, --read-only export read-only -P, --partition=num only expose partition I<num> -s, --snapshot use snapshot file -n, --nocache --cache=cache set cache mode to be used with the file. See the documentation of the emulator's C<-drive cache=...> option for allowed values. --aio=aio choose asynchronous I/O mode between B<threads> (the default) and B<native> (Linux only). --discard=discard toggles whether I<discard> (also known as I<trim> or I<unmap>) requests are ignored or passed to the filesystem. The default is no (B<--discard=ignore>). -c, --connect=dev connect I<filename> to NBD device I<dev> -d, --disconnect disconnect the specified device -e, --shared=num device can be shared by I<num> clients (default B<1>) -f, --format=fmt force block driver for format I<fmt> instead of auto-detecting -t, --persistent don't exit on the last connection -v, --verbose display extra debugging information -h, --help display this help and exit -V, --version output version information and exit SEE ALSO
qemu-img(1) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2006 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 2014-06-10 QEMU-NBD(8)
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