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===Nestor Chan===
Some experience with FreeBSD on Virtual Boxhttp://de-luxer.blogspot.com/2009/02/emtional-freebsd-in-vm-with-bad-tempertemper_04.html
How to clone a HD image(vdi)http://de-luxer.blogspot.com/2009/02/vm-clone-war_11.html There are some bugs in VBox if you install applications from source. The bug claims to be fixed in XP, but my experience that the bug is still not fixed. You may need to 'make' few times to compile a package successfully.2009/04/24 broken link due to reposting all blogs. link fixed now. ===Gregory Katherine Masseau===
I finally managed to find the time to complete reinstalling FreeBSD on a Virtual machine, after accidentally losing my old VM a couple of weeks ago. As always, installing FreeBSD is relatively simple, straightforwards, and surprisingly fast - once you've done it a few times and remember what keys to press in what order, you can pretty much finish the portion of installation requiring human interaction in under a minute. Being half asleep, I somehow managed to miss the confirmation for the ports collection the first time, so I had to reinstall, but the second time was as quick as the first. After installation, the system comes up with no problems and everything appears to be working out of the box, including networking.
Looking at the software selections available in each, I find that while many crucial pieces of software are held in the sysinstall package list, the ports selection has an overall wider selection of software available. I think overall that both are necessary, as you cannot necessary get a given package from both methods. If a package is available by both methods, it seems that sysinstall is quicker due to avoiding the need to compile.
===Mohak Vyas===
'''Host OS:''' Fedora Core 10 x64
'''Guest Os:''' FreeBSD 7.1 i386
I tried installing FreeBSD on kvm-qemu but didnt work probably because I dont have the 'vmx' flag set in my processor. But I was successfully able to install FreeBSD in my VirtualBox. It works fine. I also installed packages like gnome and bash etc.
