Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-10-11 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:42:04PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: Little time ago I was misleaded by the certain people and got an idea that VirtualBox actually works on FreeBSD, so I've made a draft port for it. It doesn't actually work, but since I've spent several hours hacking it and made

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-10-10 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
Hi! Little time ago I was misleaded by the certain people and got an idea that VirtualBox actually works on FreeBSD, so I've made a draft port for it. It doesn't actually work, but since I've spent several hours hacking it and made bunch of (likely) useful patches, here it is, feel free to use it

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-09-26 Thread Klaus Espenlaub
Hi again, this mail was so far a partial success, since we've got into touch with people capable of helping us with this issue. In the last days the communication slowed down a bit, but this could be just temporary overload. The problems for me getting something onto the mailing list should

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-09-19 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:17:53PM +0200, Klaus Espenlaub wrote: Hi, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Klaus Espenlaub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include disclaimer I speak for myself and nobody else. I do not claim that I in any way represent FreeBSD. freebsd is yet

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-09-11 Thread Klaus Espenlaub
Hi, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Klaus Espenlaub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include disclaimer I speak for myself and nobody else. I do not claim that I in any way represent FreeBSD. freebsd is yet another kernel for which the VirtualBox devs would have to figure

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-09-08 Thread Klaus Espenlaub
[third attempt - the first two were blocked by the smart freebsd.org mailserver, which rejected the mail because it couldn't get the name for the sun mail server's IP address - which looks like a DNS misconfiguration on freesbd.org. Not nice when trying to send such messages as the following.]

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-09-08 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Klaus Espenlaub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include disclaimer I speak for myself and nobody else. I do not claim that I in any way represent FreeBSD. freebsd is yet another kernel for which the VirtualBox devs would have to figure out how to safely

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-03-06 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:04:55AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:48:45PM +0100, Olivier Cochard-Labbe wrote: I can't compile VirtualBox with your patch (I'm using a FreeBSD 7.0Release). It works with 6.3, 7.0 has the ULE scheduler which doesn't have sched_lock.

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-02-29 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbe
Hi, New patches, which actually make it compile this time :-) I can't compile VirtualBox with your patch (I'm using a FreeBSD 7.0Release). Here are the steps that I've done: 1. Comment CPUTYPE, CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS on my /etc/make.conf 2. Download the VirtualBox source code: svn co

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-02-29 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:48:45PM +0100, Olivier Cochard-Labbe wrote: I can't compile VirtualBox with your patch (I'm using a FreeBSD 7.0Release). It works with 6.3, 7.0 has the ULE scheduler which doesn't have sched_lock. Rink@ has been trying to get it work on 7.0, but... rink Mavvie:

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-02-28 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:23:48PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Olivier Cochard-Labbe wrote: Hi all, In a post concerning ?porting VirtualBox on FreeBSD?, an Innotek developer answer that they start to port it, but ?hope some developers from the FreeBSD community will pick up where we left

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-02-28 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:44:36AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:23:48PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Olivier Cochard-Labbe wrote: Hi all, In a post concerning ?porting VirtualBox on FreeBSD?, an Innotek developer answer that they start to port it, but ?hope

VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-02-26 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbe
Hi all, In a post concerning «porting VirtualBox on FreeBSD», an Innotek developer answer that they start to port it, but «hope some developers from the FreeBSD community will pick up where we left off and complete the port». Original post here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=3234

Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

2008-02-26 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Olivier Cochard-Labbe wrote: Hi all, In a post concerning «porting VirtualBox on FreeBSD», an Innotek developer answer that they start to port it, but «hope some developers from the FreeBSD community will pick up where we left off and complete the port». Original post here: