Re: porting inquiry

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:01:27 -0700
Michael Litchard <michael%schmong.org@localhost> wrote:

> I noticed in pkgsrc/docs/TODO that VirtualBox is on the "to be ported"
> list. I couldn't find who was in charge of this, and was interested in
> helping out with the porting effort. Could someone point me to the
> right person?

Hi!

As Adam mentioned, I have launched an initial effort in pkgsrc-wip[1].
It's currently at the state where work needs to begin on the kernel
module (/dev/vboxdrv) as well as the userland part that talks to it.
I've imported empty stub routines in the files/ directory to allow the
userland part to build, but much work remains here. A related issue
with virtualbox is that we need to find out exactly why NetBSD doesn't
work as a guest OS. There are some possible theories in this[2] thread.

-Tobias

[1] http://pkgsrc-wip.cvs.sourceforge.net/pkgsrc-wip/wip/virtualbox/
[2] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2009/06/19/msg009755.html