VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

Torfinn Ingolfsen tingox at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 19:51:40 UTC 2008


Hello,

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Klaus Espenlaub <Klaus.Espenlaub at sun.com> wrote:
> #include <disclaimer>

I speak for myself and nobody else. I do not claim that I in any way
represent FreeBSD.

> freebsd is yet another kernel for which the VirtualBox devs would have
> to figure out how to safely achieve a few things normal applications
> don't ever need. Like dealing with physical memory, getting along with
> the scheduler and stuff like that. It's also true that the written
> documentation in VirtualBox about this area leaves something to be
> desired - again a manpower problem.

It is easy for me as an outsider to see that this can be viewed from
the opposite angle:

"VirtualBox is just another virtualization solution for FreeBSD. We
are sorry that the VirtualBox team can't find any time to provide the
necessary documentation. Currently FreeBSD don't have any developers
with enough free time to figure things out from the documentation
available now. You see - it is simply a manpower problem."

I do hope I'm wrong, and that some FreeBSD developer will work on this.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway


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