From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 16:54:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A34E1065674 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:54:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA338FC22 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 16:54:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o28GeFPB045081 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:40:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o28GeFwd045078 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:40:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:40:15 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: emulation@freebsd.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:40:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: Subject: Making progress with VirtualBox and 8-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:54:55 -0000 VirtualBox had been locking up the host machine when trying to start a VM. The VM black screen would show, but it would lock before even showing the BIOS boot message. VirtualBox now starts VMs again, although they don't manage to power off after shutdown. The process is stopped, but doesn't exit. The log shows lots of 00:02:55.042 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) aIID={2d1a531b-4c6e-49cc-8af6-5c857b78b5d7} aComponent={Keyboard} aText={The console is not powered up} aWarning=false, preserve=false. /var/log/messages shows warning: KLD '/boot/modules/vboxnetflt.ko' is newer than the linker.hints file warning: KLD '/boot/modules/vboxnetadp.ko' is newer than the linker.hints file Steps I took: Update to 8-stable as of last night. Get patches from http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=117387+0+archive/2010/freebsd-emulation/20100228.freebsd-emulation http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=24423+0+current/freebsd-emulation Apply patches to both emulators/virtualbox-ose and emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod by adding them to the files directory. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA