Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:59:27 +0100 From: Bernhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at> To: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org>, Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4 Message-ID: <1298098767.5149.8.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> In-Reply-To: <1298078690.4289.6.camel@main> References: <b683ad8257f999241d9ad1e76136c732@bluelife.at> <1298078690.4289.6.camel@main>
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----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung ----- > 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) I should have mentioned that. Please move the old ports out of the way first. > * remove the stale vboxusers group, the install was complaining cause it > couldn't set vboxusers gid to 920 Sounds strange and should not happen. > # 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 ? Yeah i want to document it on the virtualbox wiki page but until that you could search for the mail of hans petter selasky on the vbox-dev mailinglist.
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