Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6

From: Olivier SMEDTS <olivier_at_gid0.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:23:52 +0200
2009/6/12 Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman_at_gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Martin Wilke<miwi_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Huhu,
>>
>> Yes we life and that's good :-).
>> Changes:
>>
>>  - 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?

Yes, but not on FreeBSD, and even with that it doesn't work in
VirtualBox (Apple iPhone with iTunes are really picky on USB drivers).
Neither in qemu or VMWare. If you want to use iTunes you'll have to
install Windows, else use another program.

>
>
> Sam Fourman Jr.
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