Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:26:12 +0900 From: Hideki Yamamoto <hyama99@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <90dbee150912310726k5cd995e6t3971d63aec3107f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091230222918.GA6272@alucard.int.rhavenn.net> References: <20091227232425.GA38213@bsdcrew.de> <20091230222918.GA6272@alucard.int.rhavenn.net>
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Hi, A happy new year! Thank you for your porting of VirtualBox 3.1.2. I have just tested as follows: Host OS: - FreeBSD 9-current Guest OS: - FreeBSD 8R, now compiling 9-current. - Cent OS 5.4 I386 These are very good. But as Mr. Goto said, I could not load kernel module for guest FreeBSD. Best regards, Hideki Yamamoto 2009/12/31 Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net>: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Martin Wilke wrote: > >> 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.
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