[Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.0

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Sep 20 16:51:48 UTC 2012


In the last episode (Sep 20), Marek Salwerowicz said:
> W dniu 2012-09-20 08:02, Bernhard Fröhlich pisze:
> > Hi virtualbox users!
> >
> > I am very glad to be able to send out a VirtualBox 4.2.0 call for
> > testers.  We've done a good job pushing many patches upstream before the
> > release this time so our port is much smaller and easier to handle.
> 
> thanks for the release - I will do some tests and let you know about the
> results.
> 
> By the way - can you tell me if there are any plans for releasing the
> Extension Pack for FreeBSD?  I'd really like to have the Intel E1000 PXE
> support in virtual machine.

If you're adventurous, you could try embedding the iPXE bootcode into the
emulated E1000's BIOS instead: 

http://www.ipxe.org/
http://etherboot.org/wiki/romburning/vbox

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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