From owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Thu Jul 16 13:50:18 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2D599CD29 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9F41EAD for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 2968499CD28; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: emulation@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EF899CD26 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AC11EAC for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: by freefall.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 10D191AC8; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: vbox@localmail.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100EC1AC7 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.in-addr.com (mail.in-addr.com [IPv6:2a01:4f8:191:61e8::2525:2525]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C69281EAB for ; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:50:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from gjp by mail.in-addr.com with local (Exim 4.85 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFjYE-000IDr-Vb; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:50:15 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:50:14 +0100 From: Gary Palmer To: muhammedzubair sharief Cc: vbox@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Query about Virtualbox version. Message-ID: <20150716135014.GB41419@in-addr.com> References: <20150715120619.GA41419@in-addr.com> <1437042996.75095.YahooMailBasic@web190105.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1437042996.75095.YahooMailBasic@web190105.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gpalmer@freebsd.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mail.in-addr.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:48:43 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:50:18 -0000 On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 06:36:36PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: > > -------------------------------------------- > On Wed, 15/7/15, Gary Palmer wrote: > > Subject: Re: Query about Virtualbox version. > To: "muhammedzubair sharief" > Cc: vbox@FreeBSD.org > Date: Wednesday, 15 July, 2015, 6:06 PM > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at > 06:33:52PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > > > I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD > 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. > > > > > [..] > > > pkg upgrade > > > Installed packages to be UPGRADED: > > > ??? virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 -> 4.3.30 > > ??? virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 -> > 4.3.30 > > > > The > process will require 14 KiB more space. > > > 32 MiB to be downloaded. > > > > Proceed with this action? [y/N]: > > [..] > > > > > > However there was no > stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was > recently released? > > > > Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on > FreeBSD! > > > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3 > > Quote:? "VirtualBox > 4.3.30 (released July 10th 2015)" > > Regards, > > Gary > > > Thanks, the last time I checked(on 9th July) it was not there which was during version 5 release, I am afraid that moving to version 5.0 might break the Virtualbox VM installations on 4.3.x. > Will version 5 replace 4.3.x or that be maintained separately? I can't speak for the FreeBSD VBox maintainers, but in general FreeBSD ports try to put major versions into a new port (e.g. emulators/virtualbox-ose5 or similar) so that people are not forced to upgrade and possibly break working configurations, and allow a transition period. I would expect that unless by some miracle the kernel module works for both VBox 4.3.x and 5.0.x, you may not be able to have both versions installed on the same system at the same time. Regards, Gary