From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 19:51:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E8971065676 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:51:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tingox@gmail.com) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B178FC1A for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:51:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tingox@gmail.com) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n8so294800gve.39 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:51:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=/0NdPghvPvbg6fSDpHsz9apw6kjBpI5Qz1E3x11pysk=; b=o1v4UUlpSQDttVWMSxSuY3WbkP13resBrHLilFC2kS5iBP6dbNjrfOzNBIlboEA09/ J5MTNkMgAeeWgslefq6a9PnMpWVFgmrn78IX6qAak/wovOwgMWLiRbgKJMvDtVEIEwpr hqohO2vEnnpXOuwF6qHp82mG8DOzu1gQC12RM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=GX5brvSsGydesFclqVw6JI0Sy1AkQiq7/plBFWDTOshTk0v5ciJCxEgxWwFY2wkSm4 /nVVu8vKQRPJad0k6Cbq+hn1l9sezFHcSygF65Q/7HRFEWKdxvuUex1Ypdk8JmjB6M1C kP3PLFxhYMJppduFAzVe4Kjvh/CEdEKOX0M6U= Received: by 10.210.16.17 with SMTP id 17mr19280968ebp.93.1220903497866; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.111.6 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:51:37 +0200 From: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" To: "Klaus Espenlaub" In-Reply-To: <48C52718.5080807@sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48C52718.5080807@sun.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:51:40 -0000 Hello, On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Klaus Espenlaub wrote: > #include I speak for myself and nobody else. I do not claim that I in any way represent FreeBSD. > freebsd is yet another kernel for which the VirtualBox devs would have > to figure out how to safely achieve a few things normal applications > don't ever need. Like dealing with physical memory, getting along with > the scheduler and stuff like that. It's also true that the written > documentation in VirtualBox about this area leaves something to be > desired - again a manpower problem. It is easy for me as an outsider to see that this can be viewed from the opposite angle: "VirtualBox is just another virtualization solution for FreeBSD. We are sorry that the VirtualBox team can't find any time to provide the necessary documentation. Currently FreeBSD don't have any developers with enough free time to figure things out from the documentation available now. You see - it is simply a manpower problem." I do hope I'm wrong, and that some FreeBSD developer will work on this. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway