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Date:      Mon, 09 May 2011 07:30:41 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Bernhard Froehlich <decke@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 
Message-ID:  <20110509143041.A99F31CC09@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 May 2011 05:57:05 PDT." <4DC7E4A1.6000000@rawbw.com> 

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> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 05:57:05 -0700
> From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
> 
> I think 4.0.6 is quite stable now. Is it really less stable than the 
> current version in ports 3.2.12?
> Why don't you at least put them into ports/emulators repository with 
> -devel suffix like many other ports do? So that there is no need to go 
> through the third party repository.

4.0.6 is still not as robust for me as 3.2.12, but it's now close and
the added features still make it a win for me. I have not had an actual
crash with 4.0.6, but I have had VMs simply deadlock.

The problems I have seen are all upstream, not FreeBSD specific. I see
the same issues when I use my Ubuntu VM running on Windows7. 4.0.6 is
MUCH more stable than 4.0.4.

I think it's reasonable to update the port.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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