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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:59:23 -0500
From: Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com>
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Subject: Re: [Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.4
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On 2012-10-30 04:16, Bernhard Fr=C3=B6hlich wrote:
> Hi virtualbox users!
>
> This is again a call for testers to get some feedback before we=20
> commit
> VirtualBox 4.2 to the portstree. If you already run VirtualBox 4.2.0=20
> you
> should definitely update to 4.2.4 because they fixed quite a few=20
> serious
> bugs upstream.
>
> Our plan is still to commit 4.2 to the portstree as soon as FreeBSD=20
> 9.1
> is out the door.
>
> If you are interested in helping with virtualbox maintenance and
> development or have noticed a bug you can easily find us on IRC.
>
>
> Please update devel/kBuild-devel before updating any of the=20
> virtualbox
> ports and ensure that your Kernel sources match your running kernel
> before building the virtualbox-ose-kmod port.
>
> Changes since VirtualBox 4.1:
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>
> VirtualBox 4.2.4 and 4.1.22 (legacy) Ports:
>=20
> http://people.freebsd.org/~decke/virtualbox/virtualbox-cft-4.2.4-20121030=
=2Etar.gz
>
> IRC: #freebsd-vbox on Freenode
>
>
> Bernhard on behalf of the new VirtualBox on FreeBSD Team!

Just passing along that I have successfully tested with Fedora, Ubuntu,=20
Windows 8 and Windows XP clients all without issue.

Rusty Nejdl