Re: How to test and debug Dragonfly BSD?

[John Marino <dragonflybsd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sdävtaker,
Apparently your experience differs from mine.  I've been running 
Dragonfly i386 and Dragonfly x86_64 within Virtualbox for a year now, 
and it works great.  I've had no issues whatsoever, and that's on host 
machines of both windows and Solaris.  We've even found and fixed a 
couple of bugs in Dfly due to running it inside vbox.

I think your vbox information might be a bit obsolete, or maybe there is 
something wrong with your instance of it.

It requires no tricks.  I recommend that one picks FreeBSD or 64-bit 
FreeBSD as the OS when they create the machine.

Regards,
John


On 11/8/2010 9:25 PM, Sdävtaker wrote:
> DragonflyBSD got Virtual Kernels, those are a tool to run kernels over
> kernel and debug them.
> In the documentation site:
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/documentation/
> there is a section for developer where you can read about codeing
> standards, tools, repository handling, most what you need is there :-)
> VBox doesnt run in DFBSD as far as i know and it had some tricks to
> make DFBSD work in a VBox too, there is a reported bug to oracle that
> never  was fixed and give troubles time to time (if you use it with
> no-acpi, probably the only issue you will have is a necesity for
> reboot after turn on, it works for me that way, no idea why, turn on,
> it halts, soft reset, it works....some kind of Vudu for sure).
> Also, check the irc, most the developers are there most the time :-)
> Enjoy the project, there is a lot of fascinating things going on
> Damian
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 17:07,<Marcin Ropa>  <marcinropa@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > A few weeks ago I decided to spend my free time working on dfbsd and i
> > started digging in code. I have experience as developer but there
> > everything is new for me and probably I will have to spend many time
> > before i will be helpful for the project. :)
> > I have my first question.: How do you organize your work on DragonFly
> > BSD? I am not going to ask you about your editor but how do you run,
> > test and debug your code. Do you use VirtualBox, qemu or seperate
> > machine? Does VirtualBox run on dfbsd or you run VirtualBox on another
> > system, e.g.: FreeBSD and this is your development platform?
> > I know you are busy, but if you find time please give me some hints
> > how to organize work on operating system.
> >
> > thanks a lot and
> > Greeting
> >
> > Marcin