Virtualbox is my desktop virtualisation technology of choice most of the time and I wanted to have a play with FreeBSD. Seems they don't get along tough and you won't get a network connection.
- Solution 1: Change the network adaptor in Virtualbox to PCnet-PCI II (instead of PCnet-PCI III). I've tried this and it works.
- Solution 2: I haven't tried this.
While we're on the subject, when running the Ubuntu 8.10 server jeos edition on Virtualbox don't forget to enable PAE in Virtualbox or you get to do a kernel dance using the resque mode of the installer.