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Date:      Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:08:11 +0200
From:      Bernhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at>
To:        Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Virtualbox 4.2?
Message-ID:  <1348898891.1820.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11>
In-Reply-To: <20120928182542.4fc70822@papi>
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On Fr., 28. Sep. 2012 23:25:42 CEST, Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:57:40 -0500
> Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 2012-09-28 15:43, Gour wrote:
> > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:44:50 +0300
> > > Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hm, is your answer about FreeBSD guests?
> > > > Because I definitely used shared folders with FreeBSD host and
> > > > Windows and Linux guests.
> > > 
> > > That's what I need - FreeBSD host and running Win XP guest on top
> > > of it?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Gour
> > 
> > Shared folders work just fine in this setup for me.   I mapped a drive 
> > (X) in windows XP client to a folder on my FreeBSD host.
> > 
> > Rusty Nejdl
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> Shared folders always worked perfectly for me with all versions of VBox
> I used so far with FBSD as a host.

That is nice to hear but I wasn't aware of it. Since it is on our todo list for ages I did asume that it's true. Thanks for correcting me.

> Forgive me for hijacking the thread but there were 3 patches specific
> for FBSD, published by Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> on VBox-dev list
> that were committed by Alexander Eichner. They are:
> 
> [vbox-dev] [PATCH] Implement media state for host-only interface
> [vbox-dev] [PATCH] Make FreeBSD build with SUPDRV_WITH_RELEASE_LOGGER
> [vbox-dev] [PATCH] Correct comment - this file is for FreeBSD.
> 
> Bernhard, any chance of getting those inside the 4.2 port?

Upstream is currently fixing lots of bugs so 4.2.2 will hopefully fix all that networking regressions and should be released soon. If it is urgent I could add them and do another cft otherwise I would prefer to wait for 4.2.2.

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