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Date:      Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:23:43 -0300
From:      Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
To:        Bernhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtualbox 4.2?
Message-ID:  <20120929112343.483aec3d@papi>
In-Reply-To: <1348898891.1820.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11>
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:08:11 +0200
Bernhard Fr=C3=B6hlich <decke@bluelife.at> wrote:

> On Fr., 28. Sep. 2012 23:25:42 CEST, Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
> wrote:
>=20
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:57:40 -0500
> > Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com> wrote:
> >=20
> > > On 2012-09-28 15:43, Gour wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:44:50 +0300
> > > > Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > >=20
> > > > > Hm, is your answer about FreeBSD guests?
> > > > > Because I definitely used shared folders with FreeBSD host and
> > > > > Windows and Linux guests.
> > > >=20
> > > > That's what I need - FreeBSD host and running Win XP guest on
> > > > top of it?
> > > >=20
> > > >=20
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > > Gour
> > >=20
> > > Shared folders work just fine in this setup for me.=C2=A0  I mapped a
> > > drive (X) in windows XP client to a folder on my FreeBSD host.
> > >=20
> > > Rusty Nejdl
> > > _______________________________________________
> >=20
> >=20
> > Shared folders always worked perfectly for me with all versions of
> > VBox I used so far with FBSD as a host.
>=20
> That is nice to hear but I wasn't aware of it. Since it is on our
> todo list for ages I did asume that it's true. Thanks for correcting
> me.
>=20

Let me detail that a bit more. It has always worked with guests that
have the guest additions installed (vbox services running). In my case,
all windows (2003, 2008, XP,7 and 8) and linux (debian, centos and
Fedora). OS/2 also worked. Macs don't have guest additions so I rely on
regular file sharing for their vms.

Ironically, I don't have a FreeBSD guest VM. Since I'm a daily witness
of the stability and performance of FreeBSD as a VBox host, I am first
and foremost interested on this aspect of it. Well, this is not
entirely true since I also have a pf-sense vm.

For clarity's sake, not all of these are production machines. Some of
them are just for learning/testing, and others just for
challenge/fun, like a win 3.1 vm I'll be trying to install soon.

To be precise, I have 6 production VBox vms running.

On a FreeBSD host server:

Windows 2008 server
Symantec WebGateway service
Symantec messaging (Brightmail)

On my FreeBSD laptop:

XP, win7 and win 8.

> > Forgive me for hijacking the thread but there were 3 patches
> > specific for FBSD, published by Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> on
> > VBox-dev list that were committed by Alexander Eichner. They are:
> >=20
> > [vbox-dev] [PATCH] Implement media state for host-only interface
> > [vbox-dev] [PATCH] Make FreeBSD build with
> > SUPDRV_WITH_RELEASE_LOGGER [vbox-dev] [PATCH] Correct comment -
> > this file is for FreeBSD.
> >=20
> > Bernhard, any chance of getting those inside the 4.2 port?
>=20
> Upstream is currently fixing lots of bugs so 4.2.2 will hopefully fix
> all that networking regressions and should be released soon. If it is
> urgent I could add them and do another cft otherwise I would prefer
> to wait for 4.2.2.
>=20

No urgency!. 4.2.0 is doing just fine for me to wait for 4.2.2.

Thanks again for your work, Bernhard.

--=20
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)
=20



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