Hi, On Saturday 18 May 2013 22:03:08 Felix Geyer wrote: > On 18.05.2013 20:04, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > >> However, Watcom is needed only for 16-bit code, and VirtualBox has an > >> EFI mode. Would it be possible to restrict it to EFI only in main, > >> unless the BIOS from contrib is loaded? > > > > If that's possible, I would ask the virtualbox maintainer(s) to please > > consider this alternative so that we can have virtualbox back in main. > > There are a few problems with this: > > - The EFI images aren't currently built from source as well. However it > should be possible to do so (see [1]). > - I'm not sure how well VirtualBox is able to boot common operating system > with EFI. I (and probably upstream) are already looking forward to heaps > of "$OS doesn't boot" bug reports.
EFI in VirtualBox has definitely not the same level of stability as the normal BIOS. I would strongly discourage from publishing an EFI-only VirtualBox package. > - It would require even more patching of VirtualBox to default to EFI and > display a proper error message when you try to boot a VM in BIOS mode and > it's not available. > - The VirtualBox maintainers (= me at the moment) don't even have time to > properly maintain the VirtualBox package as it is. So someone else would > have to join pkg-virtualbox and do the work. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher
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