Re: [vbox-dev] Updated Automated-guest-installs for VirtualBox ! (beta5)

2015-06-08 Thread Klaus Espenlaub
Alexey, On 08.06.2015 16:04, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >>> 2. Compatibility with Oracle VirtualBox is unstable: I defined new VM >>> types for Red Hat guests, like RHEL7_64, which Oracle VirtualBox fails >>> to understand and renders RHEL VMs inaccessible. >> >> It also changes the API (and forgets t

Re: [vbox-dev] 's/-fPIC/-fPIC -pie/' Config.kmk -- Linking with -pie for ASLR support

2015-06-08 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi, On Friday 05 June 2015 08:38:14 Moez Roy wrote: > It doesn't matter if the kernel modules cannot be compiled with PIC, > right? Because the kernel modules are compiled using DKMS when you > install VBox. So then why is there a -fno-PIC in various locations in > the Config.kmk file? > > Why is

[vbox-dev] HGCM calls slow on multicore guest (linux)

2015-06-08 Thread Höhn Thomas
Hi, I wrote a VBox host-service for my company (since 2 years) using the HGCM API to do data exchange (1K-64K size) between host/guest. We have chosen HGCM since it's the only host/guest API provided so far and we don't wanna do changes with later VBox versions. (Note: data exchange via netw

Re: [vbox-dev] Updated Automated-guest-installs for VirtualBox ! (beta5)

2015-06-08 Thread Alexey Eromenko
>> 2. Compatibility with Oracle VirtualBox is unstable: I defined new VM >> types for Red Hat guests, like RHEL7_64, which Oracle VirtualBox fails >> to understand and renders RHEL VMs inaccessible. > > It also changes the API (and forgets to change the UUID of IMachine, > which means that compiled

Re: [vbox-dev] Updated Automated-guest-installs for VirtualBox ! (beta5)

2015-06-08 Thread Klaus Espenlaub
All, On 06.05.2015 22:17, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > 0. Unattended core functionality itself *is* stable. > > What isn't stable: > 1. Installer needs work; For now installing unattended templates is a > manual task. > I couldn't figure out how Oracle kmk Makefile system works. > Is there any documen

Re: [vbox-dev] API Bugs

2015-06-08 Thread Klaus Espenlaub
Ian, On 01.06.2015 08:54, Ian Chapman wrote: > Hi Devs, > > I believe there's a few API bugs (via the web service interface) which > have existed for a while, which I could probably demonstate by writing > some test code in Perl. Hmmm... the Perl interface to the web service API is extremely limi