Nanobsd images and virtualbox

g4m3c4ck · Feb 3, 2011, 9:08 PM

I have been trying to get pfsense embedded to run on virtual box. Using the commands below successfully creates a vdi image to use

VBoxManage convertdd pfSense-1.2.3-1g-20091207-2337-nanobsd.img pfnano1g.vdi

However, when I load the vm it hangs at the bootloader. I attached a screenshot below.

I have set every minimal setting I could think of to try to get it to work. No luck so far. I did get it crash the vm though! ;D If anyone wants a copy of the trace let me know.

g4m3c4ck · Feb 5, 2011, 7:14 PM

This thread helped me find the info I was looking for http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=20285.0

jimp · Feb 7, 2011, 5:23 PM

You could still use VirtualBox for that, though why would you want to? There isn't much benefit to running nanobsd inside of a VM.

It doesn't output to VGA, so there is no console output beyond where you saw it "hang"

You can setup a virtual serial port in VirtualBox using a named pipe, and then connect to that pipe with PuTTY. I do that with my development NanoBSD VMs in VMware.