From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 15:36:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B934716A417 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:36:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from smtp.wizwire.com (smtp.wizwire.com [209.218.100.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5DD13C4AC for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:36:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (207-104-43-151.starstream.net [207.104.43.151]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.wizwire.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9JFZVfE010537; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:35:31 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke To: Matt In-Reply-To: References: <1192767877.39526.41.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <4718C378.4090609@gmx.net> <1192806195.39526.55.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Sonata Biosciences, Inc. Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:31:25 -0700 Message-Id: <1192807885.39526.59.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WizWire-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-WizWire-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: jahnke@sonatabio.com Cc: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com, punosevac@math.arizona.edu, questions@freebsd.org, Frank Staals Subject: Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jahnke@sonatabio.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:36:45 -0000 On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:23 -0500, Matt wrote: > VirtualBox builds from the Innotek svn sources, and the GUI runs but > with some issues. However, it is possible to boot a full VM instance > from within VirtualBox on a FreeBSD host (which is very promising). > The major missing component (that I'm aware of) is the kernel > acceleration module, so the VM is very slow. That's all very good news, and thanks for the update. > > The VirtualBox developers have been receptive to contributions that > were required to get their program to build on FreeBSD, and they have > written a skeleton kernel module as a first step to getting > accelerated VMs on a FreeBSD host. The kernel modules always seem to be the main challenge. This one at least is open source, so you don't have to try to figure out what is going on. I'd help, but I'm not that sort of coder.