Re: Struggling with VirtualBox

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Neumann wrote:
> I'm still trying to get DragonFly reliably working on VirtualBox (just 
> because Qemu on my Ubuntu doesn't like to run with the
> accelerator kqemu).
>
> So I modified DELAY to break out if delta <= 0. Together with 
> acpi_load=YES I can boot, but:

I know that you're just trying to get it to work, but I think this is 
absolutely the wrong thing to do.

If there is broken hardware, you sometimes need to add some bandaids to 
software so that it will run on broken hardware.

If the "hardware" is actually software, one should rather fix the 
"hardware" to be standards compliant instead of adding bandaids to the 
operating system.

This is clearly a virtualbox bug and needs to be addressed in virtualbox. 
 All other emulators manage to do it, so it can't be that hard.

cheers
  simon

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