Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:24:26 +0100 From: Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20091227232425.GA38213@bsdcrew.de>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy, Changelog from VirtualBox is available here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog Changes in the port: - VirtualBox and the guest additions have been updated to 3.1.2. - Port has been renamed to virtualbox-ose to reflect that we are using the OSE version. Requested by: mm@ - A seperate port for the kernel modules has been created: virtualbox-ose-kmod - A seperate port for guest additions for FreeBSD guests has been created: virtualbox-ose-additions - Added proper PulseAudio support for FreeBSD. Contributed by Noriyoshi Kawano - procfs is no longer required because vbox uses sysctl(3) now. Contributed by Baptiste Daroussin and Bernhard Froehlich - Fix build with a non-standard location for the system source. Submitted by: scf@ How to upgrade: - Fetch the new ports: # fetch https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz # tar xf virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz - Build the new ports: # cd virtualbox-ose-kmod && make # cd ../virtualbox-ose && make - If build was ok, deinstall old port # pkg_deinstall virtualbox-\* - Install new port: # cd ../virtualbox-ose-kmod && make install clean # cd ../virtualbox-ose && make install clean For FreeBSD guests within VirtualBox please try the new guest additions port: # fetch https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz # tar xf virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz # cd virtualbox-ose-additions && make install clean # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vboxguest.sh start Check that the VirtualBox kernel module is loaded via loader.conf and reboot the machine. Check the wiki page for known problems: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox Please report any functionality which was working with previous versions of VirtualBox and no longer working with 3.1.2 or any build failure. Many thanks to the VirtualBox developers, all tester and patch submitter and the whole vbox@ team. Happy Testing! - - Martin on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team - -- +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ | PGP : 0xB1E6FCE9 | Jabber : miwi(at)BSDCrew.de | | Skype : splash_111 | Mail : miwi(at)FreeBSD.org | +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ | Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest! | +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAks37KkACgkQdLJIhLHm/Ok3GwCfcmO139V3S1FIWfHD3Dbgg55b hqUAniuphKrJduJNRb0p4OZptwMDHV/a =NteY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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