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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>

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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
>
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