From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 19:44:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B1F1065670 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:44:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=672f17c13=pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com) Received: from ip-002.utdallas.edu (ip-002.utdallas.edu [129.110.20.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126AF8FC17 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:44:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Group: None X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAEeVj0uBbgog/2dsb2JhbACcMLg8hHwEgxc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,582,1262584800"; d="scan'208";a="26404237" Received: from zxtm01.utdallas.edu (HELO utd65257.utdallas.edu) ([129.110.10.32]) by ip-002.utdallas.edu with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 04 Mar 2010 13:15:02 -0600 Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:15:02 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: Glen Barber , Chris Hill Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100304015032.GA21561@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> References: <4B8E5AC8.5020008@bbconsult.co.uk> <20100304015032.GA21561@orion.hsd1.pa.comcast.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.6 (Linux/x86) X-Munged-Reply-To: Figure it out MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Thomas Lawrence , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:44:21 -0000 I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of issues with qt4 stuff. --On Wednesday, March 03, 2010 20:50:32 -0500 Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > Chris Hill wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: >> >> > Hello Guys and Gals, >> > Can you clear something up for me. >> > Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on >> > Freebsd8. >> >> Glen Barber posted this... >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html >> >> ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. >> > > It is a (horribly outdated) pkg_add(1) installer. I haven't had a chance > to update it yet; hopefully this weekend now that my attention has been > drawn to it. > > For the record, it is not the closed-source version. It is > emulators/virtualbox before it was repocopied to > emulators/virtualbox-ose-*. > > Regards, -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson