Next Release estimates?

[Norman Feske]

Hello Lonnie,

> I was just wondering if there was an estimate on when the next release
> might happen as I am looking forward to seeing it as well as wondering
> if the current VirtualBox implementation in Genode will have been
> improved with networking and perhaps a local filesystem (for physical
> CDROM access or VDI acsess) so that you do not have to compile the guest
> OS ISO's into a Genode-NOVA-VB ISO to boot?

the next release (version 14.05) will be published end of May. We plan
to have guest-networking support by summer. I cannot promise that the
feature will become part of 14.05 already.

Btw, with the current version of VirtualBox, you don't need to load the
VDI/ISO images as boot modules. You can already store them on a regular
file system on disk.

VirtualBox always requests a file-system session and obtains the VDI or
ISO file from there. It's just that our example run script routes the
file-system session request to a ram_fs, which, in turn, obtains the VDI
file from core's ROM service. You can replace the ram_fs with a real
file system (e.g., ext2_fuse_fs) working on a block device (e.g., via
ahci_drv).

Cheers
Norman

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