From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 27 12:09:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A001456C for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sh4-5.1blu.de (sh4-5.1blu.de [178.254.11.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 671602BAC for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ftp51246-2575596 by sh4-5.1blu.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1VldvS-00085P-J4; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:09:02 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:09:02 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: Lutz Bichler , freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.3.2: does not start Message-ID: <20131127120902.GA25851@sh4-5.1blu.de> References: <20131127060054.GA1690@La-Habana> <20131127065141.GA4005@sh4-5.1blu.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20131127065141.GA4005@sh4-5.1blu.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:09:05 -0000 El día Wednesday, November 27, 2013 a las 07:51:41AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió: > The command; > > # sudo -u guru VirtualBox > > let show up and error dialog box with the message > > Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object > > The application will now terminate. > > Details: > Callee RC: NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) It seems to be a bit tricky to get that beast up and running: Here is what I got to know so far: - one must be in the group 'vboxusers' - one must 'unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH' (at least in KDE4 environment) this will solve the SEGFAULT crash; - one must create by hand(!) a dir ~/.VirtualBox and there a file: $ cat .VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml after this there is a least a log about the booting: $ cat .VirtualBox/VBoxSVC.log VirtualBox XPCOM Server 4.3.2_OSE r90405 freebsd.x86 (Nov 20 2013 14:00:44) release log 00:00:00.005135 main Log opened 2013-11-27T10:55:17.598220000Z 00:00:00.005137 main Build Type: release 00:00:00.005139 main OS Product: FreeBSD 00:00:00.005141 main OS Release: 10.0-ALPHA4 00:00:00.005143 main OS Version: FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 #1: Fri Oct 18 12:10:57 CEST 2013 guru@aurora.Sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 00:00:00.005145 main Host RAM: 2027MB total, 1864MB available 00:00:00.005147 main Executable: /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC 00:00:00.005149 main Process ID: 9104 00:00:00.005151 main Package type: BSD_32BITS_GENERIC (OSE) but even with this you will get the above error message when yoyu start as normal user VirtualBox; it seems (Google) that the 10.x kernel need a special option: option COMPAT_FREEBSD32 (see: http://www.freebsdonline.com/content/view/888/528/ for example); I have not yet tested it, due to lack of time installing a new kernel; maybe the maintainer could spend a few words if this is required, or what else is missing to bring this up in 10.x; thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: www.asciiribbon.org E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards