Oracle's VirtualBox kernel module labelled 'crap'

[Greg Byshenk]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:38:31PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
 
> I've been using VirtualBox on FreeBSD (and Windows) for about a year. No 
> problems on either platform. Even though my FreeBSD platform, my laptop, 
> doesn't support SVM, I've had no problems and had only one hang on my dual 
> core AMD system at home (may have been memory related). Check out the 
> following article.
> 
> http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/10/12/oracles-virtualbox-kernel-mod-labelled-cra
> p/
> 
> Have people had problems under FreeBSD or is this a Linux-only issue?

This looks like it -is- a Linux issue, as it's related to the 
Virtualbox Linux kernel module.

I've used Virtualbox for FreeBSD quite a bit over the last year or
so, and haven't personally seen any significant problems. 
 

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