I just tried this with the RC release of Windows Virtual PC and it
worked fine.
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Josh wrote:
> Hello All --
>
> I am running Windows 7 RC 1 (release 7100) and have been running the
> XP virtual machine that came with it successfully, along with creating
> several other Linux VMs for Ubuntu, etc.
>
> I want to run FreeBSD in a VM under Virtual PC, and downloaded the
> torrents for it. I've configured the 7.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso image
> to be the boot disc in VPC.
>
> When FreeBSD boots in the VM, it hangs at the following error message
> and never goes anywhere (I've left it for a few hours just to see if
> anything happens):
>
> md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4423680 bytes at 0xc0dfab28
> GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider md0 is ufsid/49fab23737484d9.
>
> I know from reading other posts in this newsgroup that I could use
> Sun's Virtualbox, but installing VM software tends to put a lot of
> extra device-driver level and registry-related stuff on the system
> that an uninstall never really gets rid of. I also rely on VPC in XP
> mode to run some legacy apps (e.g. Oracle JInitiator) that are not
> supported on Windows 7.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
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