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My Thinkpad W520 running FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p9 with Fluxbox as a WM, i7-2760QM @ 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, Nvidia Quadro 1000M and Travelstar 500GB HDD @ 7200RPM.
Last edited by Trihexagonal; 07-15-2023 at 02:06 PM.
The Gateway/Acer clone running FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p7 that currently serves as the machine I watch movies and listen to music on. It stays offline in that role so I don't keep it updated since everything is running smoothly.
Last edited by Trihexagonal; 07-15-2023 at 02:06 PM.
Distribution: VM Host: Slackware-current, VM Guests: Artix, Venom, antiX, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana
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This is FreeBSD 12 client in VM
with xfce4/openbox tin2, plank and conky, extra script for nice shutdown, reboot and logout and custom kernel for ALTQ pf options and ipv6 removal
Distribution: VM Host: Slackware-current, VM Guests: Artix, Venom, antiX, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana
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for some time I was tempted to install OpenBSD (used OBSD in late 90') in VM, but unfortunately OpenBSD does not provide client for VirtualBox. Aside from the fact that this means no shared folders and copy/paste between client/host or client/client (this is on home laptop) most importantly this also means I would be stuck at 800x600 resolution: my eyes are not that good anymore.
Thank God, as it turns out resolution is not a problem anymore:
1) install OpenBSD as VM client
2) close OpenBSD client and set max resolution you wish for the client in VirtualBox host
3) start OpenBSD in VM and create config file for VirtualBox monitor
4) restart VM client and voila! all works in the max resolution desired
On the side note: installation of OpenBSD is no brainer, I would say even "boring". All works without additional configuration steps.
Here we have OpenBSD in VirtualBox at 1920x972x32 with xfce4. I might consider Openbox installation but since I just installed FreeBSD with Openbox, I will stick with xfce4 as OpenBSD WM for a while.
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