Can we have virtualbox for AROS?

[ElPolloDiabl]

I'll pull out some bounty money if someone is going make virtualbox for AROS.
Who else wants this?

[ferrellsl]

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

[XDelusion]

It would be nice to have something as powerful as Virtual Box as opposed to QEmu or what have you.

[persia]

AROS runs fine in Virtual Box, but I'm sure that the lack of memory protection and other current century features would make the reverse difficult if not impossible.

[ferrellsl]

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.

[Nostalgiac]

The fact that it's the IP of Sun Microsystems alone means it's impossible to port it AROS.

The majority of it is pure open source, and you are free to take it.
Considering the quality of the v3.x releases though... don't touch it with a long stick :/

2.x was a good product though... sigh

Tom UK

[Arkhan]

my question is why bother?  What OS would you run??


Amiga was ahead of its time, why bother running other stuff on it


Though I suppose having a tricked out Amiga running windows 95 would be pretty funny.