VirtualBox-3.1.4 for stable?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:58 +0100
> From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke at bluelife.at>
> 
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:14:55 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net>
> wrote:
> > I am currently running the devel version, 3.1.51.r27187 on my 8-stable
> > system. Seems to be working fine. I see that 3.1.4 is now in the main
> > ports. 
> > 
> > Am I better off staying with devel or should I force it to 3.1.4?
> 
> The devel version was only to test the new memory allocation code of vbox.
> It is based on the trunk version of the virtualbox SVN repository so this
> is development code and should not be used in production. We backported the
> memory allocation patch to 3.1.x and commited it with the update to 3.1.4
> so this is the latest stable code and what you can trust in.
> 
> If there are new problems coming up as the ones that are currently
> reported for latest stable kernels the chances are good that _both_
> versions are affected in the same way because the FreeBSD specific code is
> mostly the same for both versions at the moment.
> 
> -- 
> Bernhard Fröhlich
> http://www.bluelife.at/
> 

Thanks. Guess I will go to 3.1.4 and see what happens.
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