virtualbox wishlist [already :-)]

[Andriy Gapon]

I tried the experimental virtualbox port on stable/7 amd64 and I must say I am
impressed! Thank you very much!

And already a small wishlist:

1. It seems that currently it is impossible to use raw devices with virtualbox - I
tried something that I googled up and it didn't work:
VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename test.vmdk -rawdisk
/dev/zvol/tank/test -register
[...]
Detected size of raw disk '/dev/zvol/tank/fbsd7_q64' is <NULL>, an invalid value
The raw disk vmdk file was not created

2. it would be nice if VBoxGuestAdditions.iso was included (perhaps as a port option)

3. not sure if it is a feature of virtualbox in general or a porting artifact - my
(Intel) 64-bit CPU doesn't support VT-x and as a result  can execute only 32-bit
guests. There doesn't seem to be any fallback strategy for 64-bit guests. BTW in
System/Acceleration tab "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" is shown as greyed out but checked -
this was confusing.

4. Minor annoyance - in VirtualBox GUI some text fields get partially "blacked
out" after mouse click in them.

-- 
Andriy Gapon