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Offline ferrellsl

Re: Can we have virtualbox for AROS?
« on: April 04, 2010, 06:56:01 PM »
Do you mean Virtualbox by Sun Microsystems or Bochs?  It's doubtful that Virtualbox will ever be ported to AROS but Bochs is opensource and probably wouldn't be too difficult to port over.

I believe DOSbox has already been ported and seems fairly stable running most MS-DOS apps.

Apparently fishy_fis is already working the Bochs port.  See:  http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3821&forum=1&post_id=32916
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Offline ferrellsl

Re: Can we have virtualbox for AROS?
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2010, 09:12:23 PM »
The fact that it's the IP of Sun Microsystems alone means it's impossible to port it AROS.  Not to mention the technical hurdles.

Better to support Bochs or DOSbox.  DOSbox is already running on AROS and fishy_fis is already working the Bochs port.  Even QEMU has a better chance of being ported to AROS than VirtualBox.
« Last Edit: April 04, 2010, 09:14:54 PM by ferrellsl »