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Date:      Sun, 24 May 2009 02:21:00 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 3
Message-ID:  <gva3tc$i4j$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090522175956.GA33004@bsdcrew.de>
References:  <20090522175956.GA33004@bsdcrew.de>

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Martin Wilke wrote:
> 
> We rolled a new version with a fix for all users where
> has problems with kernel load and unload. Many thanks to
> Shin-ichi Okano where submitted this patch to the vbox ml.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/vbox/virtualbox_4.tgz

Hi,

I've tested it again. The host os: 8-CURRENT AMD64, Xeon 5405, updated 
from sources from half an hour ago. No debugging in kernel.

What works:

* Booted 6.2-RELEASE i386 guest
* ACPI, IOAPIC enabled for guest emulation
* Performance seems ok (subjectively). Disk IO seems a bit slow
* Networking, NAT emulation, all emulated NIC hardware

What doesn't work:

* Hardware VT support - "A critical error has occurred..."
* CPU count detection - if I select 2 CPUs for the guest, VirtualBox 
complains the number of physical CPUs is 1 (hardware is quad core)
* Selecting > 1 CPU automatically selects Hardware VT support, so guests 
with multiple virtual CPUs cannot be booted.
* 64-bit guest support (same as above)
* Enabling virtual SATA controller - no error messages, the guest simply 
changes state to "aborted"
* Enabling COM ports - same as above
* Enabling audio - "Some audio devices could not be opened, 
HostAudioNotResponding"
* Rebooting the VM guest "from inside" from the boot loader


But so far it's an excellent start :) Thanks!




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