From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 20 20:17:19 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: vbox@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FC62401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-x236.google.com (mail-oa0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06D1B2680 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:17:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id h16so5187024oag.13 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:17:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bluelife.at; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=6VJLwgDw7V3oo05WwDq7D6zh422pX9R5gs2Ts4srmqw=; b=JCn5E2Ja9xv+PjNnauS/bJPygoNYwOCdu5MWMyuNW2R5onyde8FY1qlvijAPWcBLFP 52BH0ESsr9S/JYDsFEeu/4ylTT6nhK/xXkPFBjOIlISHAd3+XmpBkaT4dvO+SfvE4O8X ftV/NdkNM4U1p4OpPPhpiBUhY9yFfNNMRxCXI= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=6VJLwgDw7V3oo05WwDq7D6zh422pX9R5gs2Ts4srmqw=; b=dSgA0QZx2GN0bp9FuoiQwR16fWSvZlbEjUHB+HFr+9Mf6MpUX7TWqIzolWw4Jx8aR7 85oYvAgyd3sbX/2GK4XJOcAiyfFrKfe9y6tHhD807W9yH/sNBWabZdEry05VOzE8g4KB 333LBlTvFtFOzPoF19M4m1S3IQJqd2yzlXhqKT9SZB4oBPgOkSPdVUKAQus8d3NX6sxj gZBzx/F5Ll/7Uq1hM2+YYECfjBkFeKC5Ub0ng8nJbezhZ9/03WnQzQsWCUpsYwnwyKX6 +VgFSh00cfFya2ZZqS9ApiTRkvYzyqCj6tvKGhrzel3B6DX0xp2Uxit4BQvl9VHj/ksV C2kA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnz3HHqKSiypJqSkobZZsu4YsZfKASFHDZhu6JYDdGgsQT0/+zL3E7pCahwIf+hW9aRhRX5 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.49.166 with SMTP id v6mr1940641obn.13.1384978638155; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:17:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.154.2 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:17:18 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [176.66.111.246] Received: by 10.76.154.2 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:17:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201311201700.rAKH01cG089618@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201311201700.rAKH01cG089618@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:17:18 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ports/183085: emulators/virtualbox-ose failed to work on FreeBSD 10-BETA1 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= To: Photo stuff X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:26:07 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.16 Cc: vbox@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:17:19 -0000 Am 20.11.2013 18:42 schrieb "Photo stuff" : > > The following reply was made to PR ports/183085; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Photo stuff > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, gosha-necr@yandex.ru > Cc: > Subject: Re: ports/183085: emulators/virtualbox-ose failed to work on FreeBSD > 10-BETA1 > Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:49:50 +0100 > > L.S. > > I can report that on FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 2, Virtualbox > virtualbox-ose-4.2.18_1 fails with the same messages: > > ---- > VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object! > VBoxManage: error: Code NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Operation aborted > (extended info not available) > VBoxManage: error: Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running > or failed to start. > --- > > Also, removing .Virtualbox directory which is mentioned in various > places on the web going back for a few years, does not work for me either. > > Starting VBoxSVC in one xterm, then typing VirtualBox in another gives > the error message that it can't read the "VirtualBox.xml". Well, of > course if doesn't exist it can't be read. > > So creating a minimal VirtualBox.xml in the .VirtualBox directory that > was created after the failed start, was what I tried and it worked. Even > the most minimal one such as what Bernhard Froehlich suggested (removing > the 2 times '3D' that I see on the bugreport via the web) works. > > I then added a virtual image etc. VirtualBox seems to work fine when the > xml file is there. It is really strange that this only seems to affect FreeBSD 10 and I have no clue why. To my knowledge this code that creates the xml file has not changed for quite a while and worked fine up to now.