Re: [vbox-dev] OS/2 related file fix

2021-01-18 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
ling list > vbox-dev@virtualbox.org > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev -- Kind Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Med vennlig hilsen, Knut St. Osmundsen Oracle Global Services Germany GmbH Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht Münche

Re: [vbox-dev] IOMMU support

2021-01-18 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
t support? > > Thanks, > Tang > > ___ > vbox-dev mailing list > vbox-dev@virtualbox.org > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev -- Kind Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Med vennlig hilsen, Knut St. Osmundsen Or

Re: [vbox-dev] Extension pack for FreeBSD

2020-05-13 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
irely on the community for QA. For that reason and others there may be trouble convincing the upstairs crowd that this is a good idea. Could maybe be easier if it was an host agnostic build though.  Will have to discuss this a little internally again ... -- Kind Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüße

Re: [vbox-dev] [PATCH 2nd resend] VBoxServiceAutoMount: Change Linux mount code to use

2019-05-04 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
On 2019-05-04 7:44 PM, Michael Thayer wrote: > 04.05.19 16:44, Michael Thayer wrote: >> 03.05.19 23:40, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote: >> [...] >>> Finally, does the libc or kernel mount() implementation somehow invoke >>> the /sbin/mount.vboxsf helper tool?  Pl

Re: [vbox-dev] [PATCH 2nd resend] VBoxServiceAutoMount: Change Linux mount code to use

2019-05-03 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Sérgio, the patch undoes the mount tagging I added in 6.0 to distinguish between user mounted and automatically mounted shares.  Further, it removes vbsfmount_complete code we need for updating mtab on some really old additions we still care a little bit about.  I'm not entirely sure if

Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox official debug builds/debug symbols

2018-04-13 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi all. The VBOX_ASSERT=no environment variable only works for ring-3 code and will not be picked up by kernel drivers or raw-mode. The risk of hitting an assertion in the kernel drivers is reasonably low these days. I run debug everything all the time and haven't seen any spurious BSODs for

Re: [vbox-dev] [RFC] VGDrvCommonIoCtl: Add f32bit flag argument

2017-08-14 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Hans, the other platforms also have KPIs or similar constructs for figuring out whether the client process issuing the I/O controls is a 32-bit or 64-bit one. However, using the VBOXGUEST_IOCTL_FLAG set to 0 or 0x80 if 32-bit or 64-bit was a less complex (+faster(+safer)) way of deal with

Re: [vbox-dev] Removing code only used by no longer supported hosts (was Opportunity to significantly shrink the vboxsf Linux driver)

2017-08-08 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Hans, vgdrvInitFixateGuestMappings cannot be removed, that is still used when running guests in raw-mode. Raw-mode still have its uses even on hosts with hardware virtualization support. Like for instance running VBox inside a guest OS (i.e. nested virtualization without needing nested

Re: [vbox-dev] [PATCH 2/2] vgdrvLinuxIOCtl: Always return standard Linux errno values

2017-08-07 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
the developer needed it. However, this also need to be cleaned up eventually, if we haven't already. On 2017-08-07 7:06 PM, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote: > Hi Hans, > > sorry but I'm not convinced this is really useful and improving the code. We > will fix this properly in a cross pla

Re: [vbox-dev] [PATCH 2/2] vgdrvLinuxIOCtl: Always return standard Linux errno values

2017-08-07 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
just keep the positive return value is a vbox status code > thing for the upstream submission. > > Thanks & Regards, > > Hans > > > >> Regards >> Michael >> 06.08.2017 22:08, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote: >>> Hi Hans, >>> >>> I'm wit

Re: [vbox-dev] [PATCH 2/2] vgdrvLinuxIOCtl: Always return standard Linux errno values

2017-08-06 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Hans, I'm with you on this not being entirely optimal. However 'man ioctl' (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl.2.html) documents it as sane behavior. So why change working code? As I mentioned, the ideal fix would be to pass the VBox status code back separately in the request

Re: [vbox-dev] [PATCH 2/2] vgdrvLinuxIOCtl: Always return standard Linux errno values

2017-08-06 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Hans, if I understand you correctly you suggest converting VBox status codes (currently around 2000) to linux errno.h (a few hundreds) in ring-0 and have ring-3 convert the errno.h back to VBox status codes. Because the potential information loss, that's not something I would like to do.

Re: [vbox-dev] Replacing VbglPhysHeapAlloc with kmalloc for linux vboxguest module ?

2017-07-06 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Hans. On 2017-07-06 11:13 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > VbglPhysHeapAlloc seems to be yet another mem-allocator > which chunks up memory returned by RTMemContAlloc, which > returns physical contiguous memory below 4GB. Need for keeping the code cross platform, not all supported guest have

Re: [vbox-dev] Null pointer access in VMEmt.cpp by vmR3EmulationThreadWithId

2017-03-17 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Alexander, thanks for identifying a race. Looking at the code, I can only imagine this happening if the other EMTs (not 0) are late into the loop due to busy host / scheduling fun. The only alternative I can see would be some wait error in vmR3BootstrapWait and causing it to return. I've

Re: [vbox-dev] Location of VirtualBox configuration file

2016-11-21 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Malcom. On 2016-11-20 7:55 PM, Malcolm Clarke wrote: > > Dear Max > > Still no response. > > Looking at path-win.cpp, the following code is unclear > > > RTDECL(int) RTPathUserHome(char *pszPath, size_t cchPath) > { [snip] > > Assuming this falls through to get the environment variable, then >

Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox VMware VGA emulation

2015-06-23 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Ian, in my experience the most recent 4.3 and 5.0RC it works pretty well with Xorg guest drivers, like the ones shipped with ubuntu 12.04 and later. The 3D support works reasonably for Linux desktop purposes. Kind Regards, bird. ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße

Re: [vbox-dev] Regarding possible solution to #13157 - Windows Command line argument handling error

2015-05-05 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird - -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 Muenchen Registergericht: Amtsgericht

Re: [vbox-dev] Regarding possible solution to #13157 - Windows Command line argument handling error

2015-05-04 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Magnus, seems notepad.exe and few other windows apps are doing it for themselves... So, I've added an option to disable the quoting and escaping. New test build: https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-4.3.27-100026-Win.exe Try: VBoxManage guestcontrol vm exec [creds]

Re: [vbox-dev] Regarding possible solution to #13157 - Windows Command line argument handling error

2015-04-29 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mangus, as far as we know, with the current SVN code / test build you got, RTGetOptArgvToString/BOURNE_SH (host side) and RTGetOptArgvFromString (guest side) round-trips just fine now. So, argument vectors should be transferred to the guest

Re: [vbox-dev] Question about setuid-to-root privileges required for Virtual Box binaries on Linux

2014-03-15 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Kavita, I hope you will forgive us our reluctance to discuss product security in details in public forums. I can assure you, though, that the set-uid-to-root approach is a necessary and, to our knowledge, secure measure. Below I've give a couple of clues to help you a tiny bit along.

Re: [vbox-dev] Shared memory driver (PV-like)

2014-02-22 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Karoline, It would be easier to help you if you could explain more accurately what you want to do. If the question is whether a host OS process can open a shared memory window into a guest OS process (or the other way around), then no, we don't provide APIs for that *yet*. We have been

Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox 4.3.0: yasm cannot reference symbol `X86TSS64_size' in preprocessor

2013-11-19 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
On 11/15/2013 8:53 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, This is with FreeBSD 10-CURRENT, SVN revision r255948 with ports as r328930 (all around 1st of October) on i386 architecture; making emulators/virtualbox-ose gives: # make install clean BATCH=yes USE_GCC=any ... kBuild: Pass - Build

Re: [vbox-dev] Virtualbox without VT-x crashes when running Android

2013-10-24 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Louis, could you provide us with steps how to reproduce this, please? Alternatively, a core dump might be helpful if it's difficult to reproduce without your ARM app. Kind Regards, bird. On 10/23/2013 7:35 AM, Louis Luo wrote: Hi VBox developers, We are experiencing some crashes when

Re: [vbox-dev] Host BSOD after r49150 and r49151

2013-10-21 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Vic, thanks for the report. The bug is fixed in current SVN (r49213). Cheers, bird On Oct 20, 2013, at 7:34 AM, Vic Lee llyzs@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Recently when I updated to latest SVN tree I found out that my host (yes, the host, not guest) always BSOD whenever I try

Re: [vbox-dev] [Patch] kBuild Haiku Fixes v1

2012-09-10 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Alexander, thanks for the fixes. I've applied the relevant ones. The sed code have received a few haiku hacks so that it now builds with both compilers and doesn't crash. The crash was in mbrtowc and seems to be a haiku issue and be unrelated to the age of the sed code (this code works

Re: [vbox-dev] Documenting VirtualBox Limits

2011-11-11 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
If you need more to quote on wikipedia, try the VMM source docs: https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/VMM.cpp#L48 Kind Regards, Knut. On Nov 7, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: Sometime ago I wrote a bit about VBox limits here:

Re: [vbox-dev] HGCM for USB2.0 required?

2011-08-04 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
I am sure that I or someone else from Oracle has already mentioned that we will fix the Windows build issues eventually. This involves updating and upgrading our internal tool chain on windows to the Windows 7 WDK level, dropping the visual c++ requirement if possible (practically and

Re: [vbox-dev] Source code for bridging interfaces

2011-08-01 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 Muenchen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRA 95603 Komplementaerin: ORACLE Deutschland

Re: [vbox-dev] Parallel build failure

2011-07-24 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Malte, do you know which version kmk gentoo is using for building? Sounds like it's not the same as we are using since we're constantly building VirtualBox on multi-core/cpu boxes and are not seeing this issue. Kind Regards, Knut. On Jul 24, 2011, at 4:06 AM, Malte Starostik wrote:

Re: [vbox-dev] Managing CR3 on guest O.S.

2011-07-23 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
they normally would be loaded into the CPUs TLB. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com

Re: [vbox-dev] [PATCH] fix a uninitialize fieldin pdm

2011-06-11 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Howard, thanks for the fix! This interface is only used by VBoxBFE. VBoxBFE does not get much (if any) attention, so that's why we haven't discovered the problem. Kind Regards, Knut. On Jun 11, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Howard Su wrote: --- a/VirtualBox_OSE/src/VBox/VMM/VMMR3/PDMDriver.cpp

Re: [vbox-dev] Cannot Live-capture VirtualBox network packets with Wireshark

2011-06-08 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Since there seems to be a wireshark bug and the bug already contains a patch, I don't think we need to do anything. Cheers, Knut. On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:34 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: It turns out, that Wireshark, when in pipe/FIFO mode, dislike VirtualBox habit to create first empty packet,

Re: [vbox-dev] Paging in VirtualBox

2011-06-07 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384

Re: [vbox-dev] Linux Host VM Cap?

2011-05-08 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
. Klaus -Zak Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 19:01:21 +0200 From: klaus.espenl...@oracle.com To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Linux Host VM Cap? On 01.05.2011 17:56, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote: Hi Zak! The VMM imposes

Re: [vbox-dev] Linux Host VM Cap?

2011-05-01 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 Muenchen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRA 95603 Komplementaerin: ORACLE Deutschland

Re: [vbox-dev] Shared folders symlink kfree bug

2011-05-01 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Brian, thanks for pointing out this bug in RT[Path|Dir|File]Rename, and my apologies for not responding sooner. I've corrected the rename functions to respect symbolic links in the internal SVN, it will soon be visible in the public one. Cheers, Knut. On Mar 28, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Brian

Re: [vbox-dev] Snow Leopard Build Instructions

2011-01-31 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
/ Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 Muenchen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRA 95603

Re: [vbox-dev] KVM VirtualBox

2010-12-22 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt

Re: [vbox-dev] Guest controlled scatter/gather of a virtual PCI memory region

2010-12-09 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
somewhere as you must restore them on reset (all memory is replaced by zero pages) and possibly also power off. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox

Re: [vbox-dev] detailed paths from vm i/o to host?

2010-12-09 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 Muenchen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRA 95603 Komplementaerin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V

Re: [vbox-dev] Configuration values

2010-08-31 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
parameters are unused at the moment, i.e. we use the defaults. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b

Re: [vbox-dev] Guest property limit?

2010-08-17 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 Muenchen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRA

Re: [vbox-dev] VBox Documentation -- Was: Help me understanding...

2010-08-02 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
. There are a quite a few things to be desired from the docs, but that will improve with time. Enjoy. ;-) -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384

Re: [vbox-dev] Best way to identify the VM id in the Virtual Box Source code

2010-07-22 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
on *nix) of an EMT can be found in VMCPU::hNativeThread (VM::aCpus[idCpu].hNativeThread). -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384

Re: [vbox-dev] Simple PCI device for shared memory

2010-05-19 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
the guest (the only use case is the VGA port I/O IIRC). [snip] -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com

Re: [vbox-dev] 3.2.0beta2/win32/OSE does not build: kmk endless recursion

2010-05-10 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com == Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems

Re: [vbox-dev] How can a Linux program inside a VM find out that a VM has just been restored.

2010-04-11 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
restore. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com

Re: [vbox-dev] useful debug for OS X deadlock panics?

2010-04-06 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
available. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com == Sitz der

Re: [vbox-dev] VNC server patch

2010-04-02 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
the huge Config.kmk file): echo VBOX_WITH_VNC=1 LocalConfig.kmk -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b

Re: [vbox-dev] compile error on latest once.cpp

2010-03-27 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com == Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551

Re: [vbox-dev] Hardening levels in VBox OSE?

2010-03-23 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
do not want to run the risk that someone has added themselves to the root group. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany

Re: [vbox-dev] 64-bit VM build for Mac OS X uses deployment options that break Leopard support

2010-03-18 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
looked into it by now. If you want to run a 64-bit VirtualBox on OS X, I suggest you run Snow Leopard with the 64-bit kernel. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer

Re: [vbox-dev] Virtualbox compiled as PIE/PIC

2010-02-21 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
/ Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com == Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun

Re: [vbox-dev] Translating different types of memory addresses in virtual box

2010-02-14 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
of the guest virtual address. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com

Re: [vbox-dev] Translating different types of memory addresses in virtual box

2010-02-13 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
/ Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com == Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1

Re: [vbox-dev] How does the virtualbox object-orientation work ? Any documentation ?

2010-01-28 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
depending on their roles and use these for communication. I hope this was of some help... -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt

Re: [vbox-dev] How does the virtualbox object-orientation work ? Any documentation ?

2010-01-28 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
On Jan 28, 2010, at 20:19, Christophe Devriese wrote: Hi again, Another question : it seems just about no backend implements Asynchronous operation (except, oddly VMDK backend). Is this something being worked on ? I especially would have expected the ISCSI backend to implement

Re: [vbox-dev] vm detection

2010-01-04 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
On Jan 2, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Stéphane, On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Stéphane Charette wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:09, Larry Finger larry.fin...@lwfinger.net wrote: For my edification, why does it matter? Some extra installation steps we have to run when our

Re: [vbox-dev] Source code for shared folders in Windows guests?

2010-01-04 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
On Jan 2, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Alfred Krohmer wrote: Sorry, forgot to add the CC. How do I send an interrupt to the guest? I think this might get quiet difficult from kernel mode on the host. Furthermore, for receiving the answer from the guest I would need to set up a HGCM host service and

Re: [vbox-dev] fUpdateStuff flag never set in trunk/src/VBox/VMM/TM.cpp ?

2009-12-07 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH

Re: [vbox-dev] app crash bug

2009-10-28 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
there will be more as you shouldn't hit this LogRel()... We'll get to them in a few days.) -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany

Re: [vbox-dev] Getting symbols from a backtrace on OS X

2009-10-27 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
/ Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1

Re: [vbox-dev] debian build failed on svn r23717

2009-10-14 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH

Re: [vbox-dev] sed error, building on Mac OS X 10.5

2009-09-30 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB

Re: [vbox-dev] Access to vboxdrv

2009-09-07 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten

Re: [vbox-dev] should RTFILE be unint64_t on Amd 64?

2009-07-03 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
on Windows, so it does make sense to change RTFILE to a HCUINTPTR sized type. I've created an internal task for implementing this. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer

Re: [vbox-dev] Build issues

2009-06-24 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
directory (out). -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com

Re: [vbox-dev] Multiple-thread apartment (MTA) conflicts with OLE drag/drop?

2009-05-20 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
On May 15, 2009, at 19:32, Huihong Luo wrote: Seems this is a known issue on windows host, any ideas to fix it? Currently, VirtualBox.exe requires MTA to operate correctly, but OLE Drag/Drop requires Single-thread apartment (STA) threading model. I tried a few things for a few days, but

Re: [vbox-dev] [FreeBSD] Request for help

2009-05-16 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
On May 16, 2009, at 02:23, Martin Wilke wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy, About the AMD64 problem, I think we have a good debug output which could help to find the problem, please see here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-May/006055.html

Re: [vbox-dev] New C++ Developper available for FreeBSD porting.

2009-05-15 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
-- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten

Re: [vbox-dev] Internal Network - Switch Like Behavior

2009-04-24 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
the network buffer. That ring buffer is exclusive for each interface. The ring is fed from src/VBox/Devices/Network/SrvIntNetR0.cpp and that's also where the switch code is. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen

Re: [vbox-dev] Shared pages

2009-04-20 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
. The feature was architected a good while back and will show up eventually. -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, Knut -- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b

Re: [vbox-dev] FreeBSD Port Status

2009-02-23 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:b...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen

Re: [vbox-dev] reserved identifier violation

2009-02-19 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
or/ and subdirectory in addition to the file name to avoid clashes with software we're using or that is using our code. Hope this was readable and helpful. :-) Kind Regards, knut --- Sun Microsystems GmbHKnut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384

Re: [vbox-dev] svn 13842 debian package not compile

2008-11-05 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Antonio Doldo wrote: Frank Mehnert ha scritto: On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Antonio Doldo wrote: I have a tested and simple procedure that use: *dpkg-buildpackage -rfaferoot -us -uc* Ok, please try again with the latest SVN version. Kind regards, Frank there is another

Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox - FreeBSD port status

2008-10-08 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Klaus Espenlaub wrote: Since this pops up more and more frequently - a few bits of information: You can forget about running VirtualBox in Linux compatibility mode. The driver won't work. Also, solving the build problems is also a relatively minor issue - it's simply bit rot since none

Re: [vbox-dev] FreeBSD port

2008-05-13 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Jason Bacon wrote: I've started working on a FreeBSD port framework, which is available at my web site: http://personalpages.tds.net/~jwbacon/Ports/ I hit a snag with kbuild that I could use some help with. The link command lacks whitespace after -L[snip]/src/VBox/Main/, which

Re: [vbox-dev] (no subject)

2007-10-24 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Knut St. Osmundsen wrote: cfao wrote: Reverting Kbuild executables to revision 36 (September 28), fixes the problem The other 3 revisions after that one, have the same issue. Thanks. I will try find some time one of the next days and try track it down. It should be working again now

Re: [vbox-dev] Bug on Virtualbox 1.5 with Via C7 CPU: Can't run XP guest

2007-10-14 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
David Losada Gacio wrote: Nope, it didn't run. I attach the log. Sorry for the delay, I had to ate something... Too bad. But, the logs indicated that there was some more info that I suppressed (0xc002), although I'm not quite sure if it really matters much. Anyway, I've changed the code

Re: [vbox-dev] (no subject)

2007-10-11 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
cfao wrote: Reverting Kbuild executables to revision 36 (September 28), fixes the problem The other 3 revisions after that one, have the same issue. Thanks. I will try find some time one of the next days and try track it down. Kind Regards, knut

Re: [vbox-dev] FreeBSD VirtualBox patch

2007-09-19 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Hi Oliver. Olivier Fauchon wrote: Hi, Thanks to Bird's (from IRC #vbox-devs) work and advices, I could spent some of my spare time trying to enhance VirtualBox's FreeBSD status. Here is an attached patch that fixes : - 'configure' : should properly detect FreeBSD libraries and

Re: [vbox-dev] VirtualBox doesn't build on Mac OS X

2007-09-12 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Egor Egorov wrote: On 12 сент. 2007, at 17:50, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote: BTW, any plans for new official Mac OS X beta? It's a bit hard for me right now to give you any dates as we're a bit stretched here at the moment and that's delayed the Mac OS X things a little bit unfortunately

Re: [vbox-dev] building and running VirtualBox on Mac OS X

2007-09-03 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Egor Egorov wrote: On 3 сент. 2007, at 17:02, Knut St. Osmundsen wrote: I'm trying to build VirtualBox from SVN on intel Mac OS X 10.4.10 with last dev tools. I found the kLdr package from month ago and put the source into src/VBox/Runtime/kLdr, I configure as: ./configure --disable

Re: [vbox-dev] movzx error compiling on Mac OS X

2007-08-31 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Kyle Harrigan wrote: kBuild: Compiling RuntimeR3 - generic/critsect-generic.cpp {standard input}:772:no such 386 instruction: `movzx' Any ideas? This is Intel Mac btw. It's a compare and exchange function from include/iprt/asm.h that's causing this. The thing is it works fine with the gnu

Re: [vbox-dev] Ring 3 cpuid

2007-07-11 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Micha Moffie wrote: Running a small app calling cpuid (inside a guest) - it looks like i see the host cpuid. Is that correct? That is correct for ring-3 (user mode) code. The x86 architecture provides no way of intercepting the cpuid instruction and the features we mask off for ring-0

Re: [vbox-dev] How to add a new network device

2007-05-02 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Robert Zeljko wrote: Hello, I'm having some difficulties adding a new network device to the VirtualBox. My attempt is based on existing device implemented in the .../Network/DevPCNet.cpp. I've updated the Devices/Makefile and added my device in there. I've also updated Devices/Builtins.cpp

Re: [vbox-dev] Patch for Mac Jp keyboard

2007-04-30 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
K.Seki wrote: Hello, I made a patch to fix the Mac Japanese keyboard issue I posted in vbox-user mailing list. Here is the result of diff command for DarwinKeyboard.cpp: 203,204c203,204 0, /* */ 0, /*

Re: [vbox-dev] PATH_OUT

2007-04-05 Thread Knut St. Osmundsen
Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote: I was messing around with VBOx 1930 today, and was trying to build it (on a Linux host) to a specific directory. I've found out the PATH_OUT environment variable, and decided to try it, hoping that the binaries/libraries would be put on this directory: export