Re: VirtualBox

On 5/19/23 06:42, Alex Samorukov wrote:
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>> For lack of available info, I naively tried booting the aarch64 disc1 
>> ISO, which not surprisingly didn't work.  Not even sure if this is the 
>> right approach, but it seems like the intuitive one the the average 
>> VirtualBox user.  I think it would be ideal if the experience were the 
>> same as for x86.
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> Just try UTM :)
> 
> Again, VirtualBox is a road to nowhere - it emulates x86 on aarch. Of 
> course, performance will be terrible, as well as emulation quality. KVM 
> just works, and if you need UI - UTM works pretty well for me, at least. 
> And you will get near-native speed, as it is arm64 guest on arm64 host 
> which uses native macOS virtualisation framework.

Thanks for the tip.

I'm running on UTM now.  Still no luck getting a display beyond 800x600, 
and bridged networking doesn't work, but I got port forwarding to work 
under the vlan config, so I can ssh into the VM.

I mainly want something faster than my rock64 for testing FreeBSD ports 
on arm, so this serves my needs for the moment.

I added a qemu check to desktop-installer so it's as user-friendly as it 
is for Parallels, VMWare, and Hyper-V now.

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