Re: linuxulator update

[bradley@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

That brings a question to mind.

Will VirtualBox run on DragonFlyBSD?

OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris are officially supported by VirtualBox
as per their website, and though it's not mentioned on the site, Solaris,
PCBSD and NetBSD are virtual machine options in VirtualBox when creating a
virtual machine.

> Hi all,
>
> As you may already know, I've been working on an extensive update of our
> linux emulation layer over the past week. Just now I've committed this
> update and you can expect it to make it into the 2.6 release.
>
> I've tested it with Apache Tomcat 6, Java, Opera and Acrobat Reader, but I
> would welcome more testing; as a matter of fact, as much testing as
> possible
> so we can take care of possible issues before the release.
>
> While I also tried getting Flash running, there still seems to be an issue
> with it. Given my little familiarity with Flash, I'd appreciate some
> insight
> on this. I've tried it also with the standalone player of flash9 and a
> local
> .swf, but the problem remains; the swf doesn't seem to get loaded. The
> browser plugin says "movie not loaded" when doing right click on it.
>
> Over the next few months I'll slowly clean up the code a bit more,
> breaking
> out machine independent bits from sys/emulation/linux/i386 and organizing
> header files better, to make it easier to port to amd64 eventually. This
> is
> of no priority to me, so if anyone wants to get this working soon, they
> can
> work on it. Of course, feel free to contact me if you have any queries
> about
> this or anything else regarding the linuxulator.
>
> Regards,
> Alex Hornung
>
>