On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Alexander Eichner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi FreeBSD users, > > in the effort to make VirtualBox the most portable platform for > virtualization we can announce that VirtualBox is finally running on > FreeBSD. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Screenshots contains two > screenshots of VirtualBox running on FreeBSD with a Windows and a > Linux guest. > Even though the basic functions are working there are still a lot of > things to do and we do not recommend to use it on production machines. > Furthermore Sun does not officially support FreeBSD yet. This is a > port done by developers in their free time. However if you are a > developer or want to test it you can checkout the latest code and build > VirtualBox yourself. A list of working and unimplemented features and > known bugs is below. > > Working: > - Software virtualization > - The VirtualBox QT4 frontend > - Sound through OSS > - NAT networking > > Not implemented: > - Bridged and host only networking (the required kernel drivers are > missing) > - USB > - Installer > - OpenGL support > - ACPI > - Host CD/DVD access > - Host serial support > - things I forgot ;) > > Known bugs and limitations: > - Unloading the kernel driver panics the host > - Hardware assisted virtualization doesn't work reliable yet > - VBoxSVC needs to be started manually > - proc needs to be mounted > > If you want to implement a missing feature or fix a bug please leave a > note on the list before you start to avoid duplicated work and if you > find a bug other than the ones listed above please use this list to > report it and not the forum or official bugtracker because the port is > not officially supported. > > Kind Regards and have fun, > Alexander Eichner >
Those are excellent news indeed, although I'm not a FreeBSD user, I Welcome this move, as it sets VirtualBox as world's most portable virtualizer ! -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.4.2009. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
