could anyone port VirtualBox to freebsd as host system?

[Garrett Cooper]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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

 From <http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions> 
(please ignore the fact that it says Linux at the top):


You need:

     * GCC 3.2.3 or later

     * as86 (real mode assembler, usually part of the dev86 or bin86 
package)

     * bcc (Bruce Evans C Compiler; often part of the dev86 package)

     * IASL (Intel ACPI compiler)

     * xsltproc (libxslt, XML style sheet processor)

     * libxerces (Xerces XML parser; the C++, not the Java version)

     * libxalan (Xalan XSL library, depends on Xerces; again, the C++, 
not the Java version)

     * libXcursor (required to support color mouse pointers in guest)

     * Qt 3.3.x (with x >= 5 if possible)

     * libIDL

     * libSDL

     * ALSA

So, I don't think it's really possible at this time. However, if 
OpenBSD's making progress then maybe it'd be a good idea to take a look 
at what they're doing..

-Garrett