Hi,
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Klaus Espenlaub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
#include <disclaimer>
I speak for myself and nobody else. I do not claim that I in any way
represent FreeBSD.
freebsd is yet another kernel for which the VirtualBox devs would have
to figure out how to safely achieve a few things normal applications
don't ever need. Like dealing with physical memory, getting along with
the scheduler and stuff like that. It's also true that the written
documentation in VirtualBox about this area leaves something to be
desired - again a manpower problem.
It is easy for me as an outsider to see that this can be viewed from
the opposite angle:
"VirtualBox is just another virtualization solution for FreeBSD. We
are sorry that the VirtualBox team can't find any time to provide the
necessary documentation. Currently FreeBSD don't have any developers
with enough free time to figure things out from the documentation
available now. You see - it is simply a manpower problem."
I like to do such rewordings myself every now and then, but this one was
not very constructive. It incorrectly implies that whoever will attempt
this will be on his own figuring out what needs to be done. We'll help
with information as much as we can.
What I wrote is that the currently available written documentation isn't
enough to do this. The very same is true for the FreeBSD documentation
though, because if it were trivial to figure out what kernel functions
perform the operations needed by the VirtualBox driver this issue
wouldn't exist. But no one gains anything by pointing fingers, and thus
all I'm saying is that we'll improve the documentation in cooperation
with whoever is interested.
My mail was intended to start cooperation, and I still hope there's
someone picking up this offer. We're easy to contact, on #vbox-dev on
freenode.
Klaus
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