Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:46:59 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox-3.1.4 for stable? Message-ID: <20100316204659.295411CC18@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:58 BST." <cb8e84a5c2f7f8bc412871af7a48b69a@bluelife.at>
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> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:58 +0100 > From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:14:55 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> > wrote: > > I am currently running the devel version, 3.1.51.r27187 on my 8-stable > > system. Seems to be working fine. I see that 3.1.4 is now in the main > > ports. > > > > Am I better off staying with devel or should I force it to 3.1.4? > > The devel version was only to test the new memory allocation code of vbox. > It is based on the trunk version of the virtualbox SVN repository so this > is development code and should not be used in production. We backported the > memory allocation patch to 3.1.x and commited it with the update to 3.1.4 > so this is the latest stable code and what you can trust in. > > If there are new problems coming up as the ones that are currently > reported for latest stable kernels the chances are good that _both_ > versions are affected in the same way because the FreeBSD specific code is > mostly the same for both versions at the moment. > > -- > Bernhard Fröhlich > http://www.bluelife.at/ > Thanks. Guess I will go to 3.1.4 and see what happens. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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