From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 12:20:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E424B1065670 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Klaus.Espenlaub@Sun.COM) Received: from gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com (gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com [192.18.6.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727DE8FC12 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:20:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Klaus.Espenlaub@Sun.COM) Received: from fe-emea-10.sun.com (gmp-eb-lb-2-fe3.eu.sun.com [192.18.6.12]) by gmp-eb-inf-2.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9SCKlrY002770 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:20:49 GMT Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-emea-10.sun.com by fe-emea-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0K9G002017KE7U00@fe-emea-10.sun.com> (original mail from Klaus.Espenlaub@Sun.COM) for freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:20:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.1.132] ([10.196.62.132]) by fe-emea-10.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0K9G001LM7MEK300@fe-emea-10.sun.com>; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:20:38 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:20:32 +0100 From: Klaus Espenlaub In-reply-to: <78cb3d3f0810280123pb472948s61946db4564d5bea@mail.gmail.com> Sender: Klaus.Espenlaub@Sun.COM To: Adrian Penisoara Message-id: <49070390.1080701@sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <48C52718.5080807@sun.com> <48DC91E4.8060206@sun.com> <78cb3d3f0810280123pb472948s61946db4564d5bea@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:52:39 +0000 Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:20:53 -0000 Adrian Penisoara wrote: > Hi, > > Can we get some details on how this effort is organized ? Other > people might want to contribute (even testing or evaluating, if not > otherwise), me included... I haven't heard anything for weeks from the so far only person who seemed capable of working on the kernel side of the problem. Which is bad news, as that means absolutely nothing happened in the main problem area. So people who can deal with kernel-level memory allocation (both phsyical and virtual memory) and similar are invited to contact us. We periodically get mail from people who think that getting a working port is just fixing the bunch of trivial build problems. That's the annoying part for us, as those contributors all too often don't realize that it'd be much less work for us to fix those build issues ourselves than to review the changes. However without getting the kernel driver part in a better shape it's totally useless to have a perfectly clean build. Sorry that I can't spend a lot of time looking into FreeBSD mailing lists. If you have anything interesting make sure you put me in the CC. Thanks for bringing this to my attention again, Klaus > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Klaus Espenlaub > wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> this mail was so far a partial success, since we've got into touch with >> people capable of helping us with this issue. In the last days the >> communication slowed down a bit, but this could be just temporary overload. >> >> The problems for me getting something onto the mailing list should be >> resolved, thanks goes to the people running the freebsd mail server. >> >> Klaus