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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:23:06 +0100 (CET)
From:      "Bernhard Froehlich" <decke@bluelife.at>
To:        "Doug Barton" <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org>, Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at>, ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <fec358f4e1d34396474b818627f8810f.squirrel@webmail.itac.at>
In-Reply-To: <4B38F7E0.2040007@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20091227232425.GA38213@bsdcrew.de> <20091228152528.732bcd14@ernst.jennejohn.org> <2534a9adb4738f1205c69bbea9d89e12.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> <4B38F7E0.2040007@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, December 28, 2009 7:24 pm, Doug Barton wrote:
> Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>> Looks like you installed the guest additions on the host. You should not
>> do that. They should only be installed on FreeBSD guests running in an
>> virtualbox.
>
> The pkg-descr and COMMENT should probably be amended to reflect this
> since it was confusing to me too. :) Perhaps something like the attached?
>
> Also, in looking at the shell script that is provided for the
> additions it would be nice if it could be updated to an rc.d style
> script. If anyone wants to tackle that and needs help feel free to
> follow up on the -ports list, or freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org.

Thanks. I've applied the patch and will write a new rc.d startscript for
the guest additions. Looks like they need a bit love anyway.

http://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports/revision/?rev=607

--
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/




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