VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Hi,

Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> 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 like to do such rewordings myself every now and then, but this one was 
not very constructive. It incorrectly implies that whoever will attempt 
this will be on his own figuring out what needs to be done. We'll help 
with information as much as we can.

What I wrote is that the currently available written documentation isn't 
enough to do this. The very same is true for the FreeBSD documentation 
though, because if it were trivial to figure out what kernel functions 
perform the operations needed by the VirtualBox driver this issue 
wouldn't exist. But no one gains anything by pointing fingers, and thus 
all I'm saying is that we'll improve the documentation in cooperation 
with whoever is interested.

My mail was intended to start cooperation, and I still hope there's 
someone picking up this offer. We're easy to contact, on #vbox-dev on 
freenode.

Klaus