From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 08:53:32 2011 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 58B041065672 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 08:53:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from groupware.itac.at (groupware.itac.at [91.205.172.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0A38FC16 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 08:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.bluelife.at (93.104.210.95) by groupware.itac.at (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 1DC93B; Fri, 27 May 2011 10:53:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:53:31 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Kevin Oberman In-Reply-To: <20110523212945.418871CC0B@ptavv.es.net> References: <20110523212945.418871CC0B@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: X-Sender: decke@bluelife.at User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.2 X-AxigenSpam-Level: 1 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A090205.4DDF668A.011D,ss=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VB 4.0.8 is working very well 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, 27 May 2011 08:53:32 -0000 On Mon, 23 May 2011 14:29:45 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I installed 4.0.8 this morning and it works very well. No problems at > all to this point using FreeBSD as the host and Windows7 as guest. I > may install Fedora a bit later. > > So far everything seems to be working very well. The issues I had with > 4.0.4 are gone and there is USB support. (I have yet to try it, though.) > > One thing I realized quickly is that I didn't have VNC support. A small > bit of looking made me realize that I needed to re-build with different > config options and it is rebuilding now. > > I would suggest that you look at adding a config section to the wiki. > While most options are pretty obvious, I had to look up VDE (don't need > it) and I still don't know what 'Webservice' covers. (Not knowing, I > didn't enable it.) It also does not even mention the virtualbox-ose-kmod > port. I know it will be installed as a dependency, but it could easily > be missed in an upgrade. Even in the handbook entry (which is looking a > bit stale) the only option mentioned is GuestAdditions. > > I'm willing to re-work the handbook entry and submit it to whoever is > appropriate and can add a 'config' section to the wiki if it's OK, once > I know what all the options really mean. How about fixing the option descriptions? I would be glad if some native speaker could come up with better descriptions that fit into the maximum length. For now I just try to describe what the options do: QT4 QT4 frontend DEBUG Additional logging and a lot of asserts DBUS DBUS+HAL and we need this for Host CD/DVD access PULSEAUDIO PulseAudio sound output X11 Provides an SDL frontend and is required for QT4 frontend VDE Virtual Distributed Ethernet driver (http://vde.sourceforge.net/) VNC VNC server support WEBSERVICE SOAP backend used by eg www/phpvirtualbox NLS NLS support for the QT4 frontend -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/