From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 22 02:15:27 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 4ADEA106566B for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 02:15:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B4C58FC1D for ; Fri, 22 May 2009 02:15:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [172.17.2.19] (jn@stealth.jnielsen.net [74.218.226.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n4M1fgKD027447; Thu, 21 May 2009 21:41:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, jahnke@sonatabio.com Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 21:41:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <1242591163.11490.17.camel@zinfandel> In-Reply-To: <1242591163.11490.17.camel@zinfandel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905212141.41344.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! 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: Fri, 22 May 2009 02:15:27 -0000 On Sunday 17 May 2009 04:12:43 pm Frank Jahnke wrote: > > Now we think that we solved the most > > problems and are ready for the first Call for Testing. > > Thank you for this. I have installed W2K Server on i386 7-STABLE > system without major heartache. It does not work for me when I am not > root, which causes some minor inconvenience. Otherwise all the updates > so loved by Microsoft installed fine, and the VM itself seems to > function properly. Speed seems to be much better than qemu/kqemu, but > slower than the old VMware port (though that is really a pain to use > these days since it is limited to single core CPUs only). > > Are there plans to do a port of the Guest Additions? Right now the > resolution and bit depth are limited to 800x600, 16 bits, and that > really limits its usefulness. Just a thought / side note / workaround here. You might be better off enabling remote desktop on the W2K guest and then accessing it via net/rdesktop (in ports). That lets Windows give you its own virtualized desktop while using native rendering on your host with arbitrary geometry and depth, etc. > Of course you are starting in the right place: without a stable port > the additions are not of any particular use. JN