[Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Martin Wilke<miwi at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> Huhu,
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> Yes we life and that's good :-).
> Changes:
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>  - Fix build error when compiling in debug mode on FreeBSD HEAD
>  - SemEvent?-r0drv/FreeBSD: Don't use tvtohz for an infinite timeout.
>  - Some FreeBSD relate typos
>  - Enable shared OpenGL service. Completely untested due to lack of
>    appropriate hardware but it compiles at least
>  - Add support for shared clipboards. Requires libXt
>  - FreeBSD: Implement preemption API for guest SMP and enable
>    it (slightly tested). Add neccessary RTMP* methods in userspace
>    for the frontends to detect the number of CPUs
>  - Runtime/semevent-r0drv-freebsd: Use a sleeping mutex
>    instead of a spinlock to fix the problems users are seeing
>    (assertions with debugging enabled) while still being able
>    to run on 100Hz hosts. No problems detected so far and Solaris
>    doesn't use a spin mutex in this code too so it shouldn't do
>    any harm (keeping fingers crossed)space for the frontends to
>    detect the number of CPUs
>  - Add support for curl
>  - Add VBoxSharedClipboard
>
> Ports Changes;
>  - Force guestadditions version to 2.2.4
>  - Removed Qt3 include replacements (already upstream)
>  - Removed cosmetic X11 include path patch
>
> Please make SURE, your world and kernel is in sync and you've read
> the pkg-messages. Also please unload the kernel module before
> you update the port ;-).
>
> Many thx to all Vbox Devs, All supporters, my nice team! :-)
>
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/vbox/virtualbox_6.tgz
>
>  Happy Testing!
>
> - - Martin


This may be off topic a bit, but I am looking for a way to plug my Apple Iphone
into a Windows based guest.

Does virtualbox allow usb passthrough?


Sam Fourman Jr.