Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:03:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Marek Salwerowicz <marek_sal@wp.pl>, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.0 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209201143430.6698@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20120920164730.GB18364@dan.emsphone.com> References: <CAE-m3X3Lnhe7aQ3duO68apXOu6eAtbyB9qfafcDo2THVWgfs-w@mail.gmail.com> <505ACADF.7050207@wp.pl> <20120920164730.GB18364@dan.emsphone.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --3512871622-1828747268-1348164190=:6698 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 20), Marek Salwerowicz said: >> W dniu 2012-09-20 08:02, Bernhard Fröhlich pisze: >>> Hi virtualbox users! >>> >>> I am very glad to be able to send out a VirtualBox 4.2.0 call for >>> testers. 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. > > If you're adventurous, you could try embedding the iPXE bootcode into the > emulated E1000's BIOS instead: > > http://www.ipxe.org/ > http://etherboot.org/wiki/romburning/vbox Interesting! There is even an image of the ROM downloadable if you enter vendor 8086 and device 100E. http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-1.0.1/contrib/rom-o-matic/ % VBoxManage setextradata global VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/LanBootRom gpxe-1.0.1-8086100e.rom Set bridged mode, choose the Intel Pro/1000 MT adapter, boot from Lan... but it still only shows "FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted." --3512871622-1828747268-1348164190=:6698--
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