From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 4 09:38:37 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 EB1EC106564A for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 09:38:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from groupware.itac.at (groupware.itac.at [91.205.172.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 807178FC16 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 09:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.bluelife.at (93.104.210.95) by groupware.itac.at (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 012C8A; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 11:23:33 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:23:24 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Alexander Leidinger In-Reply-To: <20110803221922.000006f3@unknown> References: <20110803221922.000006f3@unknown> Message-ID: X-Sender: decke@bluelife.at User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.3 X-AxigenSpam-Level: 1 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B020D.4E3A650B.01AF,ss=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in the Oracle Knowledge base (Oracle VM) 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: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:38:38 -0000 On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 22:19:22 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Hi, > > today I stumbled upon the possibility to chose FreeBSD as a filter in > the Oracle Support pages. I searched a little bit and found the reason. > It seems Oracle has answers to questions about FreeBSD and virtualbox. > > I thought this may be interesting to someone here. In case someone > knows a little bit more about the level of support Oracle gives > regarding this, I would be interested to hear more about it. That's interesting. Could you share that link? The current status is that FreeBSD is officially not supported at all. Not as Guest and not as Host. For FreeBSD host support they need an OEM customer that requests official support. Klaus told me that they don't have any resources for that at the moment so they would have to hire a few people and it won't be cheap for the OEM. Well. That's the official situation. I don't think waiting for such a customer is worth it. Unofficially the situation looks a lot better. They opened a lot of code from the former closed source blobs and created APIs to extend the functionality. The FreeBSD community is very active with feedback and patches that we push upstream. That works very well and we have good communication with the developers. And then there is Alexander Eichner who did all the initial work and our fast track to get FreeBSD specific patches committed. He is kept very busy recently but is still doing very valuable work for us. It is a bit problematic to get bugs fixed because the vbox code is quite complex and non trivial so we depend a lot on them and cannot debug or fix many problems ourselves. -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/