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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   VirtualBox (was Re: Xen Status)
Message-ID:  <170952.47920.qm@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On 11:23 am 08/22/08 "Francisco Reyes" <lists@stringsutils.com> wrote:

> I am thinking whether we should approach the developers in VirtualBox
> (which I think was purchased by Sun..) and see if they have anyone what
> could work on a FreeBSD port and have the FreeBSD foundation pay for the
> work. I for one would definitely donate to the FreeBSD foundation towards
> virtualization work.

I am using VirtualBox on Vista to run OpenSolaris and PC-BSD .. it is great=
; it's pretty much comparable to qemu with acceleration, but better.

Unfortunately the FreeBSD port is stuck: at some point the basic stuff was =
working but the independent guy that was working on it lost interest. The b=
ig step is porting the kernel components that need FreeBSD specific knowled=
ge.

I am not sure if we need someone from SUN/VB to do the port, maybe a FreeBS=
D kqemu hacker would be the right person.

Pedro.

ps. I updated devel/bin86 with amd64 support (PR ports/125614) in the hope =
that it will be useful for such effort.=20

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