From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 19 21:54:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC13316A417 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:54:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from datahead4@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9F913C45A for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:54:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from datahead4@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so226038wxd for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:54:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; 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=p2hrMn7lJmpotocTRqpi6JNKIKiRU8jfM0bZF/aXjKg=; b=jOTNUm0w6M7jIZAhRQTiJ/Uvx1Jvbnqsz4JV2ABR95/wouymG9yda/DBUO1QQmUe8n5yA/n6T64oEAD5R0jiesjgdeWN9z9EW6QAwWt7g6v4rKe/u5zpGTAMsowX3eQUURU3yIs3Ofv7BWubTANF/Urb91tr1fAp68hXV7kejiY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZflFrWgaxJ9id0CHqOzyM64TOj3UHBlqfFtFIyWN96agUUysAkl3yxhLJAyZ+y+Rg+DFEcUaf85hcaWMPbGve4l8zLREcmqVd2UBx8zkK/HEfxOX57R5/VZVhlKBQfQPjcZH7+a8hL4oL1aMRG8cnFJA7ozc5fRvJc6T83EMRPY= Received: by 10.90.81.14 with SMTP id e14mr955519agb.1190237437535; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.106.19 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:30:37 -0500 From: Matt To: "Matt Olander" In-Reply-To: <200709041048.41892.matt@ixsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200709041048.41892.matt@ixsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras , Jeremy Messenger Subject: Re: VirtualBox? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:54:58 -0000 On 9/4/07, Matt Olander wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 8:27 am, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:33:50 -0500, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is anyone working on porting VirtualBox? > > > > > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Porting_VirtualBox > > > > > > It mentions FreeBSD but nothing conclusive. It should be easier than > > > VMWare :) > > > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others (see in host box) > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/FreeBSD%20build%20instructions > > http://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=freebsd&wiki=on&changeset=on&ticket=on > > > > It looks like they are working on it. > > I spoke with a couple of their devs on Freenode and while they are willing to > assist contributors porting to FreeBSD, they are not actively working on it > themselves. Their response to my inquiry was "check out source and start > porting!" > > A few of their devs hang out in #vbox-dev on Freenode. This would be an > excellent port for FreeBSD. > > best, > -matt > > -- I agree that this would be an excellent addition to the FreeBSD toolset. We use it on several Linux and Windows host machines and it is quite good. There has been some additional porting work of late and the VirtualBox devs have been quick to import suggestions into their subversion tree. The result is that VirtualBox now builds successfully on FreeBSD version 6.2 and 7-CURRENT with only minor patches (and those should hopefully go away soon too). However, the kernel driver (and some other things too) are missing and need additional work. Is there anyone here capable of helping with that effort? Regards, Matt