Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 07:45:12 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Graham Menhennitt <graham@menhennitt.com.au>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, vbox@FreeBSD.org, jkim@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> Subject: Re: VirtualBox port not working with USB Message-ID: <442573a6-27f9-2eb3-39ef-334a61dbce1b@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <49a336e6-3954-1536-6a59-150bb63e667a@menhennitt.com.au> References: <49a336e6-3954-1536-6a59-150bb63e667a@menhennitt.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hans, You're the USB god, any ideas here? thank you, -Alfred On 1/21/17 4:37 PM, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > G'day all, > > About 6 months ago, the FreeBSD port of VirtualBox was upgraded from > version 5.0.26 to 5.1.4. The new version didn't work with USB devices > whereas the old one did. I raised PR > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212845 at the time. > Since then, the port has followed the releases of VirtualBox up to > 5.1.14 as of last week (thanks, jkim). However, the same USB problem > has existed for all that time. > > I'm having a go at trying to fix it. But I know almost nothing about > the VirtualBox source code. So, I'd like some help please. Does > anybody here have any experience with this. Or any clues as to where I > should start looking. > > At the moment I'm just trying to do diffs between the old and new > versions, but it's a fairly daunting task. I'm also going to try > building versions 5.0.32 and 5.1.0 (which never had FreeBSD ports) to > see whether the breakage was in between them (I presume that it was). > > Thanks for any help, > > Graham > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?442573a6-27f9-2eb3-39ef-334a61dbce1b>