It’s a moronic limitation, done with the concerns of “security” in mind. joker# cd /usrĪnd there’s nothing I can do about that. Those libraries are all stored in /usr/local/lib, and on my system, /usr/local is a link to another filesystem: /local. VBox refuses to load a VM if any of VBox’s shared libraries are available over soft (logical) links.

But when I tried to launch the VM, it failed outright. Virtualbox-ose-nox11-5.2.18_1 General-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardwareĪfter installing the VBox package, I created a new VM using the same VBox image from Cumulus that I’d worked with on my Mac.

Virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.18_1 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD Virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11-5.2.18_1 VirtualBox additions for FreeBSD guests Virtualbox-ose-additions-5.2.18_1 VirtualBox additions for FreeBSD guests Virtualbox-ose-5.2.18_1 General-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware Phpvirtualbox-5.2.0_1 AJAX Web Interface for VirtualBox There’s already a package set up to make installing VBox easy: joker# pkg search virtualbox joker$ freebsd-versionĭue to my success with VBox on my Mac, I figured I would try to get everything moved over to FreeBSD and its VBox distribution. That went without too many hitches, to be fair.

I’m not going to go into the specifics of upgrading my server, but suffice it to say: the first step was upgrading to FreeBSD 11.2 (from the 10.3 it was running… big jump). Since then, FreeBSD has been updated quite a bit, and so has bhyve. In fact, this blog is running in one of the jails. And to be fair, I really didn’t need a hypervisor and a bunch of VMs when jails were (and still are) the better solution. At the time, the bhyve hypervisor wasn’t really where I wanted it to be as far as usability and ease of configuration. You’ll note in that entry that I decided to shun virtualizing all of my servers in favor of FreeBSD’s jail system. FreeBSD ServerĪbout three years ago, I built a new server here at home, and I went through the process in this post. I really wanted a way to offload this lab to one of the servers in my basement, and I figured out a way.

But running ten 1GB VMs began to take its toll. My laptop has a 4-core 2.8Ghz Core i7 with 16GB of RAM. As my virtual lab grew from a few VX images to the count of ten or so, my laptop began to complain. Over the course of the last few weeks or so, I’ve been working with Cumulus Linux’s VX image on VirtualBox, on my Macbook Pro.

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