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A Taste of FreeBSD With VirtualBSD

Posted by timothy on from the touches-of-os-x dept.

ReeceTarbert writes "If you wanted to try FreeBSD but didn't have the right hardware, or enough time to make it useful on the desktop, VirtualBSD might fit the bill: it's a VMware appliance based on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and features the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and a few of the most common applications to make it very functional right out of the box. If you're curious you can have a look at the screenshots, or proceed to the download page and grab the torrent file right away. (Note: VirtualBSD also works in VirtualBox 2.x as long as you create a new virtual machine and select the virtual disk from the archive instead of creating a new one)."

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  1. Not quite... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Note: VirtualBSD also works in VirtualBox 2.x

    FreeBSD works in VirtualBox 2.1.2 and later. Earlier versions had a bug which prevented FreeBSD from working correctly.

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  2. Mod parent up by Nimey · · Score: 2, Informative

    Until just recently FreeBSD installs always failed in VirtualBox.

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  3. Re:Terminology by x2A · · Score: 2, Informative

    "When did virtual machines start getting referred to as "Appliances"?"

    When vmware player was launched I do believe... and it's not just any virtual machine, it's the use of a virtual machine to distribute a ready working self contained machine that does what it says on the tin (yes, virtual machines come in tins these days) rather than lengthy install procedures or live cds. It's an appliance because it's ready to plug in and go. But, as vmware say, "hate the game, not the player'

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  4. Surely you jest by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Informative

    don't have the right hardware

    It is almost more difficult to find wrong hardware for FreeBSD. Granted, it doesn't support quite as many systems as NetBSD, but unless you are running something quite odd it is likely you can run FreeBSD on it. Hell, most systems that are being thrown away right now can run it just fine.

    FreeBSD 7.1 was released for:

    And if you happen to be running an Alpha, you can still run FreeBSD 6.3

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  5. Re:Where's the login/passwd??? by ReeceTarbert · · Score: 2, Informative
    You have it right a the login screen and in the readme file contained in the archive! ;-)

    Anyway, here goes:

    Username: virtualbsd
    Password: virtualbsd

    root: root4u

    Reece