could anyone port VirtualBox to freebsd as host system?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Thu Mar 8 08:40:50 UTC 2007


lveax wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>> lveax wrote:
>> > hey all.
>> >
>> > i noticed there is a vm called VirtualBox even faster then vmware..
>> >
>> > and it is opensource.
>> >
>> > is it possible that anyone one bring it to freebsd ports tree?
>>
>> Problem--that emulator requires ALSA for sound support, so you're most
>> likely stuck running with Linux emulation mode. Not sure if that'd
>> really be an improvement :(..
>>
> 
> thank you..
> 
> seems it is support windows? windows didn't have ALSA.
> 
> or disable the sound function?

That's the binary build though :\.. the configure script looks for linux 
sources too, which suggests that it uses other kernel tie-ins.

-Garrett


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