From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 21 16:58:23 2009 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 68026106567B for ; Thu, 21 May 2009 16:58:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D94A8FC2B for ; Thu, 21 May 2009 16:58:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id TAA16960 for ; Thu, 21 May 2009 19:58:19 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4A15882B.7030805@icyb.net.ua> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 19:58:19 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090406) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: virtualbox wishlist [already :-)] 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, 21 May 2009 16:58:24 -0000 I tried the experimental virtualbox port on stable/7 amd64 and I must say I am impressed! Thank you very much! And already a small wishlist: 1. It seems that currently it is impossible to use raw devices with virtualbox - I tried something that I googled up and it didn't work: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename test.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/zvol/tank/test -register [...] Detected size of raw disk '/dev/zvol/tank/fbsd7_q64' is , an invalid value The raw disk vmdk file was not created 2. it would be nice if VBoxGuestAdditions.iso was included (perhaps as a port option) 3. not sure if it is a feature of virtualbox in general or a porting artifact - my (Intel) 64-bit CPU doesn't support VT-x and as a result can execute only 32-bit guests. There doesn't seem to be any fallback strategy for 64-bit guests. BTW in System/Acceleration tab "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" is shown as greyed out but checked - this was confusing. 4. Minor annoyance - in VirtualBox GUI some text fields get partially "blacked out" after mouse click in them. -- Andriy Gapon