[osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-20 Thread Ben Taylor
Joerg Schilling wrote: Mika Borner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Innobox announced today, that their virtualisation solution will be released under GPL. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News There is no support for OpenSolaris X86 yet, but I guess porting the code from linux to

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many years has GCC been evolving on the i86pc platform again? About 5-10 years longer than Sun Studio, which has only had i86pc support for the last 10-15 years. Sure? Linux was a result of GCC becomming availavle to x86 FAIK. This was

[osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread UNIX admin
QEMU - on the other hand - is happy with gcc and binutils alone, which are widely available for almost any platform. Except that GCC generates slow, crappy code. It's a big slap in GCC team's face that Sun comes to i86pc as a latecomer with their compiler and trods them into the ground on

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Bart Smaalders
UNIX admin wrote: QEMU - on the other hand - is happy with gcc and binutils alone, which are widely available for almost any platform. Except that GCC generates slow, crappy code. It's a big slap in GCC team's face that Sun comes to i86pc as a latecomer with their compiler and trods them into

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
UNIX admin wrote: QEMU - on the other hand - is happy with gcc and binutils alone, which are widely available for almost any platform. Except that GCC generates slow, crappy code. It's a big slap in GCC team's face that Sun comes to i86pc as a latecomer with their compiler and trods them into

[osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-15 Thread David Edmondson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-15 16:29:13] I'm not so optimistic about that, see the build instructions: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions Required tools include * *as86* (real mode assembler, usually part of the /dev86/ or /bin86/ package) * *bcc*

[osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-15 Thread Martin Bochnig
David Edmondson wrote: * *as86* (real mode assembler, usually part of the /dev86/ or /bin86/ package) * *bcc* (Bruce Evans C Compiler; often part of the /dev86/ package) Are those available for (or easily portable to) Solaris x86? The Solaris on Xen project will be adding