Hi John,

On 2021-07-10 07:11, John Zollo wrote:
      What is the status of VirtualBox?  There are many unanswered
reports in the Bugtracker.  Here are some of them:

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18874
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20381
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20393

Is this normal?  Is there a plan to address this issue?  Is this
project, basically, dead?

This is in some sense normal. There are resource limitations (no, it's not all of Oracle which is working on VirtualBox, but a dedicated team). If something doesn't get attention by a developer reasonably soon there's a chance it will need longer to get resolved. A clear reproduction case helps greatly, and that's the issue with those tickets. The user did the best to provide information, but still that is no guarantee we'll see the same issue.

For the newer 2 tickets I asked a question which hopefully allows us to pinpoint the area causing the problem (the questions I asked may look arbitrary, but they're not).

VirtualBox is very much alive. Development of the next major release with lots of improvements is very active.

On the other hand every bit of time invested into the next release isn't available for hunting down bugs. It's a fine line.

Best,

Klaus

Thank you.

Sincerely,
John Zollo
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