OK, VirtualBox blew up again. So I blew it away.
All I want is something that can run Linux (64 and 32 bit), FreeBSD (64 and 32 bit) to check that I am not breaking anything, and NetBSD (64 and 32 bit) for the actual port. OS X I can run natitvey.
I can run one 32 bit OS otherwise on hardware I already own, and it doesn’t have enough memory to support virtualisation of an additional OS.
1. Paralells – insane cackling. 4.x didn’t work, 5.x is less stable and still doesn’t work, forget it
2. VirtualBox — works, but prone to introducing network errors and every so often decides that it will only boot FreeBSD in 32 bit mode, which works “badly” for 64 bit kernel
3. VMware doesn’t support NetBSD, my target platform.
Bugger. Bugger. Bugger.
Tags: NetBSD, Parallels, VirtualBox, virtualisation, VMware