[Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6

[Fredrik Lindberg]

Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> On Tue, September 8, 2009 12:00 pm, Boris wrote:
>> Hi Bernhard,
>>
>> I confirm VT-x is now working. It used to fail on my system with previous
>> release from the time I launched the VM.
> 
> Good to hear that! Thanks for testing it.
> 
>> I am using amd64-8-BETA4 and rev 456.
>> I have experienced a crash of the VM in the middle of the installation of
>> a
>> Debian64 so I will try again and report if it's reproducible. I used an
>> existing virtual disk so I'll try again from scratch.
> 
> I've seen something similar but haven't found out yet where the problem is.
> 
>> Could you confirm if the patch from Fredrik Lindberg is going to be
>> integrate to a next revision before port freeze?
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-September/006740.html
> 
> The short answer is no. That patch will not be included in the vbox update.
> 
> We try to stay as close to the official code as possible and instead send
> all patches upstream to get them included. So if that patch is stable it
> should be send to vbox-dev@ and i'm sure aeichner will be glad to have a
> look at it. I will talk to Fredrik if we can help in any way.
> 
> 

The network patches have been included in the upstream VirtualBox source
as of revision 22899.

Fredrik