Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 07:30:41 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Bernhard Froehlich <decke@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 Message-ID: <20110509143041.A99F31CC09@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 May 2011 05:57:05 PDT." <4DC7E4A1.6000000@rawbw.com>
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> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 05:57:05 -0700 > From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org > > I think 4.0.6 is quite stable now. Is it really less stable than the > current version in ports 3.2.12? > Why don't you at least put them into ports/emulators repository with > -devel suffix like many other ports do? So that there is no need to go > through the third party repository. 4.0.6 is still not as robust for me as 3.2.12, but it's now close and the added features still make it a win for me. I have not had an actual crash with 4.0.6, but I have had VMs simply deadlock. The problems I have seen are all upstream, not FreeBSD specific. I see the same issues when I use my Ubuntu VM running on Windows7. 4.0.6 is MUCH more stable than 4.0.4. I think it's reasonable to update the port. -- 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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