[Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD!

[John Nielsen]

On Sunday 17 May 2009 04:12:43 pm Frank Jahnke wrote:
> > Now we think that we solved the most
> > problems and are ready for the first Call for Testing.
>
> Thank you for this.  I have installed W2K Server on i386 7-STABLE
> system without major heartache.  It does not work for me when I am not
> root, which causes some minor inconvenience.  Otherwise all the updates
> so loved by Microsoft installed fine, and the VM itself seems to
> function properly.  Speed seems to be much better than qemu/kqemu, but
> slower than the old VMware port (though that is really a pain to use
> these days since it is limited to single core CPUs only).
>
> Are there plans to do a port of the Guest Additions?  Right now the
> resolution and bit depth are limited to 800x600, 16 bits, and that
> really limits its usefulness.

Just a thought / side note / workaround here. You might be better off 
enabling remote desktop on the W2K guest and then accessing it via 
net/rdesktop (in ports). That lets Windows give you its own virtualized 
desktop while using native rendering on your host with arbitrary geometry 
and depth, etc.

> Of course you are starting in the right place: without a stable port
> the additions are not of any particular use.

JN