VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Adrian Penisoara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Can we get some details on how this effort is organized ? Other
> people might want to contribute (even testing or evaluating, if not
> otherwise), me included...

I haven't heard anything for weeks from the so far only person who 
seemed capable of working on the kernel side of the problem. Which is 
bad news, as that means absolutely nothing happened in the main problem 
area. So people who can deal with kernel-level memory allocation (both 
phsyical and virtual memory) and similar are invited to contact us.

We periodically get mail from people who think that getting a working 
port is just fixing the bunch of trivial build problems. That's the 
annoying part for us, as those contributors all too often don't realize 
that it'd be much less work for us to fix those build issues ourselves 
than to review the changes. However without getting the kernel driver 
part in a better shape it's totally useless to have a perfectly clean build.

Sorry that I can't spend a lot of time looking into FreeBSD mailing 
lists. If you have anything interesting make sure you put me in the CC.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention again,

Klaus

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Klaus Espenlaub
> <Klaus.Espenlaub at sun.com> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> this mail was so far a partial success, since we've got into touch with
>> people capable of helping us with this issue. In the last days the
>> communication slowed down a bit, but this could be just temporary overload.
>>
>> The problems for me getting something onto the mailing list should be
>> resolved, thanks goes to the people running the freebsd mail server.
>>
>> Klaus