On 17 feb 2013, at 12:37, Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Hmm, does it install over Win7, or would I have to reinstall Win7?


As Daniel said, it's an application that is run inside Windows. You have a host and a guest system. In this case the host system would be your natively installed Windows 7. The guest system is what's run inside virtualbox and is FreeBSD in this case.

https://www.virtualbox.org/

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Nick Sabalausky, el 14 de February a las 22:21 me escribiste:
> "I also suspect we are reinventing JSON files badly with dmd.conf. Maybe dmd.conf should be redone as a json file." - Walter

AFAIK Walter only suggested moving to JSON because he needed some distinction between variables that should be a default and variables that need to override the environment.

That can be done with the current ini format:

[Defaults]
variable1 = blah

[Overrides]
variable2 = foo

I still don't see why we are looking at different formats...

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On 2/17/2013 7:11 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 17 feb 2013, at 12:37, Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, does it install over Win7, or would I have to reinstall Win7?
>
> As Daniel said, it's an application that is run inside Windows. You have a host and a guest system. In this case the host system would be your natively installed Windows 7. The guest system is what's run inside virtualbox and is FreeBSD in this case.
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/

"FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. Requires VT-x. Requires FreeBSD Guest Additions, available as a port emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions" -- https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes

Uh-oh!!
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On Sunday, February 17, 2013 12:05:14 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/17/2013 7:11 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > On 17 feb 2013, at 12:37, Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> >> Hmm, does it install over Win7, or would I have to reinstall Win7?
> > 
> > As Daniel said, it's an application that is run inside Windows. You have a host and a guest system. In this case the host system would be your natively installed Windows 7. The guest system is what's run inside virtualbox and is FreeBSD in this case.
> > 
> > https://www.virtualbox.org/
> 
> "FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. Requires VT-x. Requires FreeBSD Guest Additions, available as a port emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions" -- https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes
> 
> Uh-oh!!

Well, considering that they appear to be on 9.1 now, I wouldn't think that it would matter much how well it works with 6.2 unless you specifically need to test 6.2 for some reason. I wouldn't think that VT-x would be a big deal, but I guess that that depends on your CPU, since Intel appears to not put it on its lower-end chips, and if you have an AMD chip, it'll probably work just fine, since most of the entries on that page list AMD-V as working as well (though maybe it actually requires VT-x specifically). And as for the guest additions, you'll want those regardless, since that's what will allow you to transfer files between the virtual machine and the outside without using the network (as well as add or improve a number of other features).

So, maybe it's a problem, but it'll probably work just fine.

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On 17 feb 2013, at 21:05, Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> "FreeBSD 6.2 is known to cause problems. Requires VT-x. Requires FreeBSD Guest Additions, available as a port emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions" -- https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes


Is FreeBSD 6.x even supported? Latest version seems to be 9.1:

http://www.freebsd.org/where.html#download

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On 2/17/13, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't think that VT-x would be a big deal, but
> I guess that that depends on your CPU

Btw one other thing: You might have to enable hardware virtualization
in BIOS. Mine was disabled by default.
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On 17 feb 2013, at 21:38, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> wrote:

> And as for the guest additions, you'll want those regardless, since that's what will allow you to transfer files between the virtual machine and the outside without using the network (as well as add or improve a number of other features).


Yes, always install the guest additions. They will also contain graphics drivers and similar.

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On 2/17/2013 12:56 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 17 feb 2013, at 21:38, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> And as for the guest
>> additions, you'll want those regardless, since that's what will allow you to
>> transfer files between the virtual machine and the outside without using the
>> network (as well as add or improve a number of other features).
>
> Yes, always install the guest additions. They will also contain graphics drivers and similar.
>

"FreeBSD Requires hardware virtualization to be enabled. Limited support. Guest Additions are not available yet."

-- https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html

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On 2/17/13, Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> "FreeBSD Requires hardware virtualization to be enabled. Limited support.
> Guest
> Additions are not available yet."
>
> -- https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html

This claims otherwise:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-guest.html#virtualization-guest-virtualbox-guest-additions
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On Sunday, February 17, 2013 13:11:54 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/17/2013 12:56 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > On 17 feb 2013, at 21:38, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> wrote:
> >> And as for the guest
> >> additions, you'll want those regardless, since that's what will allow you
> >> to transfer files between the virtual machine and the outside without
> >> using the network (as well as add or improve a number of other
> >> features).
> > 
> > Yes, always install the guest additions. They will also contain graphics drivers and similar.
> "FreeBSD Requires hardware virtualization to be enabled. Limited support. Guest Additions are not available yet."
> 
> -- https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html

Which contradicts the other page (which seems to list the package which contains the guest additions), so that can't be a terribly good sign, but that page doesn't even list Linux 3.0, so my guess would be that it's out of date, though that's not a good sign either, since it appears to be the manual. Even without guest additions, it should be useable, just less pleasant.

I don't know. I guess that all you can do is try it. It's straightforward enough, and if you're worried about whether it will work, you can always try another OS which will definitely work first.

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