Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:29:30 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: vbox@FreeBSD.org Subject: maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 224616] emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions does not detect PAE Message-ID: <bug-224616-26505-zoiNZ3n59N@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-224616-26505@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-224616-26505@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@FreeBSD.org> has reassigned Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org>'s request for maintainer-feedback to vbox@FreeBSD.org: Bug 224616: emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions does not detect PAE https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224616 --- Description --- I could not get my PAE-using VBox guest to load vboxguest-module properly -- and, consequently, could not get X to work, etcaetera -- until I added -DPAE to the CFLAGS and rebuilt it. Maybe, it should be the port's option (or flavor?). Maybe, the port needs to be split into "common" part -- which does not depend on the kernel flags -- and the kernel-modules part, which needs to be built differently for PAE-kernels. At the very least, a load-time detection of PAE-kernel needs to be implemented so the user gets an actionable hint as to what to do, instead of the incomprehensible "vgdrvFreeBSDAddIRQ failed" followed by "vboxguest0 attach returned 6". Not even Google knows, what to do about these, although my filing this ticket may help :-) ...
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