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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:56:55 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: 64-bit linux emulation
From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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On Thu, July 16, 2015 2:39 pm, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> On 07/16/15 13:09, Lacey Powers wrote:
>>> On 07/16/2015 08:59 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How is progress on this ? Handbook still says linux 64-bit binaries
>>>> not
>>>> supported, hopefully out of date :-) ....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hello William,
>>>
>>> Looks like it's coming along, according to this Quarterly Report:
>>>
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.html#Linux-Emulation-Layer,-the-Linuxulator
>>>
>>> And there are commits referencing the "64-bit Linuxulator" in svn, so
>>> you
>>> might have some support in 11-CURRENT?
>>>
>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/search/query/N4Nlb6bNTrwA/#R
>>>
>>> Hope that helps answer your question. =)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Lacey
>>
>>
>> Hmmmmm .... well, sorta, I presume they would be back-ported to 9.3R,
>> since
>> that's what I'm running ....
>
> VirtualBox works well on 10-STABLE, provided you accept the default
> virtual hardware.  On 10.1, too, I think.

I confirm VirtualBox works perfectly on FreeBSD 10.1. As a matter of fact
I never had problems with it; used on 9.3, 10.0, 10.1 (guest systems:
Windows XP, 7, FreeBSD 8, 9, 10, CentOS 5, 6, 7, Fedora 5, 13, 16, 20,
Ubuntu 10, 14, OpenBSD 4.9, Debian 7, ReactOS,... - list is not complete)

Valeri

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