From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 14:32:51 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 7C5EC106566B for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:32:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@FreeBSD.org) Received: from groupware.itac.at (groupware.itac.at [91.205.172.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165048FC17 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:32:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.bluelife.at (93.104.210.95) by groupware.itac.at (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 212023; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:17:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:17:44 +0100 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Message-ID: X-Sender: decke@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.1 X-AxigenSpam-Level: 1 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B020B.4D5E7F87.0293,ss=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Cc: Subject: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4 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: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:32:51 -0000 Hi Testers. A few of you have probably wondered what happened to our VirtualBox efforts for FreeBSD. Well it took a bit longer then expected and a few problems were found that needed to be resolved first but most of the things are looking fine now and almost all patches have been pushed upstream with 4.0.4 so here we are now. We will continue to work on VirtualBox for FreeBSD and upstream is also very helpful to us but we could need a few more hands to better keep up with the work and especially improve and fix the Guest Additions. So if you want to help please contact us or have a look at our Todo list. This result wouldn't have been possible without the continuous help of the VirtualBox Developers and a lot of people from the FreeBSD community! (names in alphabetical order and probably missed a few, sorry for that!) - Alexander Eichner - Anonymous - Beat Gätzi - Bernhard Fröhlich - crsd - DomiX - Doug Barton - Grzegorz Blach - Hans Petter Selasky - Julian Stacey - Jung-uk Kim - Jürgen Lock - Klaus Espenlaub - Martin Wilke - Mattia Rossi - Michael Butler - Sean C. Farley - Steve Wills - tombsd - Vivek Khera - well-wisher - Wietse Venema - Yuri - many more from emulation@ Please when testing this ports backup all your virtual machines first. Also please build the port with DEBUG option enabled and send us the logfile when any VM crashes. Without them it's very hard to figure out what went wrong. Highlights with 4.0: - USB support (by Hans Petter Selasky) - Asynchronous I/O - Guest additions got startscripts and a integration into the desktop environments - www/phpvirtualbox updated to 4.0-3 Changelog for 4.0: - http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog Short configuration help: - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox Todo List: - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox/ToDo http://home.bluelife.at/ports/virtualbox-cft-20110218.tar.gz Thanks and good luck, Bernhard, on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/