Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:24:50 +0000 From: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org> To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4 Message-ID: <1298078690.4289.6.camel@main> In-Reply-To: <b683ad8257f999241d9ad1e76136c732@bluelife.at> References: <b683ad8257f999241d9ad1e76136c732@bluelife.at>
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On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:21 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > Hi Testers. > > A few of you have probably wondered what happened to our VirtualBox > efforts for FreeBSD. Well it took a bit longer then expected and a few > problems were found that needed to be resolved first but most of the > things are looking fine now and almost all patches have been pushed > upstream with 4.0.4 so here we are now. > > We will continue to work on VirtualBox for FreeBSD and upstream is also > very helpful to us but we could need a few more hands to better keep up > with the work and especially improve and fix the Guest Additions. So if > you want to help please contact us or have a look at our Todo list. > > This result wouldn't have been possible without the continuous help of > the VirtualBox Developers and a lot of people from the FreeBSD > community! (names in alphabetical order and probably missed a few, > sorry > for that!) > > - Alexander Eichner > - Anonymous > - Beat Gätzi > - Bernhard Fröhlich > - crsd > - DomiX > - Doug Barton > - Grzegorz Blach > - Hans Petter Selasky > - Julian Stacey > - Jung-uk Kim > - Jürgen Lock > - Klaus Espenlaub > - Martin Wilke > - Mattia Rossi > - Michael Butler > - Sean C. Farley > - Steve Wills > - tombsd > - Vivek Khera > - well-wisher > - Wietse Venema > - Yuri > - many more from emulation@ > > Please when testing this ports backup all your virtual machines first. > Also please build the port with DEBUG option enabled and send us the > logfile when any VM crashes. Without them it's very hard to figure out > what went wrong. > > > Highlights with 4.0: > - USB support (by Hans Petter Selasky) > - Asynchronous I/O > - Guest additions got startscripts and a integration into the desktop > environments > - www/phpvirtualbox updated to 4.0-3 > > Changelog for 4.0: > - http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog > > Short configuration help: > - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox > > Todo List: > - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox/ToDo > > > http://home.bluelife.at/ports/virtualbox-cft-20110218.tar.gz > > > Thanks and good luck, > Bernhard, on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team > Hi Folks Seems to be working ok for me... I had to; * remove stale /usr/ports/emulators/virualbox* directories (old patch file was causing build to fail) * remove the stale vboxusers group, the install was complaining cause it couldn't set vboxusers gid to 920 # uname -rp 8.1-RELEASE-p2 i386 I have tried fedora and windows xp guests, both running fine. I cant seem to get usb pass through working tho, when I go to add usb device it says 'no devices available', do we need to manually setup the device info ? Thanks Craig B
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