From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 01:13:44 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1785D106566C for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.farley.org (mail.farley.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:14d3:2::11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3228FC08 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thor.farley.org (HPooka@thor.farley.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:14d3:1::5]) by mail.farley.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p7O1DdhU063330; Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:13:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:13:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" To: Bernhard Froehlich In-Reply-To: <87a2d6a337080961760c5da503c0a9e0@bluelife.at> Message-ID: References: <87a2d6a337080961760c5da503c0a9e0@bluelife.at> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (BSF 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mail.farley.org Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:13:44 -0000 On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > Another VirtualBox major release is available since a few weeks and we > are proud to provide you a call for testers now. We had very good > results during the beta phase so we hope that it will be ready to be > committed quite soon. But it all depends on the feedback we get. > > This VirtualBox release only supports FreeBSD >= 8.0 as host system. > If you think you really need FreeBSD 7.x support please get in contact > with us. We also want to point out that GNS3 support has been added in > VirtualBox 4.1.0 and should be working with our emulators/gns3 port > but needs the UDPTUNNEL option to be enabled. I have not had time to test v4.1.2 on FreeBSD 8 as a host, but the guest additions work well with WinXP as the host and FreeBSD 8 as the guest. I think v4.1.2 even fixes a bug where the copy-and-paste between host and guest would stop working after running for hours, days or weeks. The copy-and-paste hang would even prevent FreeBSD from shutting down cleanly. Sean -- scf@FreeBSD.org