From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 20 09:23:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6087106566C for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:23:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com (mail-wi0-f172.google.com [209.85.212.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459208FC1E for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhi8 with SMTP id hi8so287411wib.13 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:23:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bluelife.at; s=google; h=mime-version:sender:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NR4Rq4lz7wrui81GDoTDMzpY59Duo8pVpz78+9AStto=; b=J5w9vB+djsQU2fVAj8pLViwvITMpJKvb6toHRsBDWkhpPUKoftrhpGv0sVuknlEmIm NRHsRvovAofC8jsyy9q/VfWQpMMhbhWI5UAYEXAMd8pebtG4TAJxiOWsxqC1fGg3XdUt ZzF5EbMB/AZfpz33Z26y1I1Xfz5xN8+fKi/Kk= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=NR4Rq4lz7wrui81GDoTDMzpY59Duo8pVpz78+9AStto=; b=aTuQLrKFrUybxzQnuMhbaDq9CTSzOz9t1Dp6O9JzS6FEFJIUpVatY3N2EKdJjoMeNs 5oZBSkTfEvLLG79nbi+MFbgRW0qSdTrtHF3sqnUdzRoZqutSGQI8At10lN83afMGUeLi KurEti2H3TcesWnYjCvsVvIJH+ycHi6maLgSGRuD899N12uwU4wBeu/JQEs09o1bwNiE 0Zm17Fu+0p9D4ztpRuG4cs1Xj/c6IgsiggtNteKdInGBIsqMCJL8bTHbgt/sVJ2EcuKI QgmW0FgmisHOvYZwbkZEKf3RkKxlqJJgGPTvfOnTTzWXuMIXotYQM4OcVTQSuNo6+sEo IFYw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.95.193 with SMTP id dm1mr4657023wib.10.1348132993956; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Sender: decke@bluelife.at Received: by 10.180.90.15 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:23:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [80.123.233.199] In-Reply-To: <505ACADF.7050207@wp.pl> References: <505ACADF.7050207@wp.pl> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:23:13 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: aK7z7s5Qb_ewn9Ny_O1CemKlUiM Message-ID: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= To: Marek Salwerowicz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkj7vvQHU0SDi+z7oUcPzStw9HC8LIk50ni5iVOFk5TqejHNWNMtH29KOKKK0n1L3eAswCE Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:23:15 -0000 On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Marek Salwerowicz wrote: > Hi, > > W dniu 2012-09-20 08:02, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich pisze: >> >> Hi virtualbox users! >> >> I am very glad to be able to send out a VirtualBox 4.2.0 call for tester= s. >> We've done a good job pushing many patches upstream before the >> release this time so our port is much smaller and easier to handle. > > > > thanks for the release - I will do some tests and let you know about the > results. > > By the way - can you tell me if there are any plans for releasing the > Extension Pack for FreeBSD? > I'd really like to have the Intel E1000 PXE support in virtual machine. > So far now it doesn't work in my environment: > > s14% sudo VBoxManage list extpacks > Extension Packs: 2 > Pack no. 0: Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack > Version: 4.1.4 > Revision: 74291 > Description: USB 2.0 Host Controller, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM with E1000 > support. > VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP > Usable: false > Why unusable: Failed to locate the main module ('VBoxPuelMain') > s14% The Oracle Extension Packs are binary blobs and don't support FreeBSD yet. If we can convince the vbox developers that FreeBSD support is worth the wo= rk and brings them some money they will most likely also release extension packs and provide binary packages for virtualbox at some point. That is a longterm goal and nobody knows if we ever get to that point. When I look back 3 years when we started with vbox on FreeBSD and compare that to the current state then I think we have almost reached a point where Free= BSD support is almost equivalent in feature parity and stability to MacOSX and Linux support. Sure there are still some weak areas like the networking implementation in FreeBSD but the linux kernel guys are also unhappy with t= he vbox kernel module stability so there is no big difference. --=20 Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/