On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:33:48 -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry_at_gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT (r251572) amd64 in a VirtualBox VM. >> >> > Recently, I started mentoring a Google Summer of Code student for the > FreeBSD project. > I worked with the student to set up a VM to run FreeBSD, with full > graphical desktop. > > You might want to follow the instructions that the student followed > here: > > http://blogs.freebsdish.org/rodrigc/2013/05/24/setting-up-a-vm-for- doing-gsoc-work/ > > Only interesting details: > (1) Student used VMWare player instead of VirtualBox (shouldn't be a > big deal). > (2) We used pkgng to install binary packages (3) We used one of the > pkgng mirrors, since pkgng packages from > FreeBSD.org aren't fully available yet > > Other than that, things worked fine, and the student was able to get a > full FreeBSD with graphical desktop inside a VM. Thanks for the pointer to the blog. With hindsight, it seems that your student avoided the issue I ran into by installing precompiled binaries, whereas I was using the Ports collection. The problem was the Clang miscompilation of xorg-server, as pointed out so kindly by Jung-uk Kim.Received on Fri Jun 14 2013 - 18:51:17 UTC
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