From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 04:30:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB4E1065674 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:30:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@mittelstaedt.us) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318218FC08 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:30:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.64] (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o9E458SJ036403 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@mittelstaedt.us) Message-ID: <4CB68179.6020608@mittelstaedt.us> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:05:13 -0700 From: Ted Mittelstaedt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org References: <201010131704.33545.hselasky@freebsd.org> <201010131813.37880.hselasky@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:05:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Hope for USB support? 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, 14 Oct 2010 04:30:07 -0000 On 10/13/2010 8:36 PM, Brandon Gooch wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Hans Petter Selasky > wrote: >> On Wednesday 13 October 2010 17:40:47 Brandon Gooch wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Hans Petter Selasky >>> >>> wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >>>>> I could use this as well, and I know of at least 2 others. >>>>> I guess a good starting point would be to ask, what is the scope of >>>>> work that needs to be done to add USB support to Virtual box in >>>>> FreeBSD >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've looked at the VirtualBox USB layer, and adding FreeBSD USB support >>>> should not require too much work. Is anyone interested in paying for >>>> this work? >>>> >>>> --HPS >>> >>> I'm very reliant on VirtualBox, I suspect many on this list are (or >>> eventually will be), so I'm interested in having this support. >>> >>> Hans, would this be better handled by the FreeBSD Foundation, or would >>> a pool of interested users be an appropriate vessel for the funds >>> (assuming it is financially viable -- how much are we talking? ;) ). >> >> Hi, >> >> I was thinking about something like $500-$1000 for adding USB support to >> VirtualBox through LibUSB. Probably you are right that it would be better to >> go through the FreeBSD Foundation, but I would also be fine getting paid >> directly through paypal for example. > > Woah. That seems awfully cheap for something that would be so > incredibly useful to have :) > > I'm not a person of means, but I can surely come up with something -- > I was actually hoping to make my first contribution to the Foundation > this year; I may have to make a tough decision :( > > (Like you) I was hoping for a much greater response to your question; > surely we have a few more opinionated -emulation-ers out there? > If that costs that, then what would it cost to get the serial port support working -again- in VirtualBox under FreeBSD? http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1548 (I haven't even bothered filing a FreeBSD PR since they still don't have it working properly under Linux) Ted