Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 09:39:57 +0200 From: Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> To: Gustau =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= <gperez@entel.upc.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <20090515073957.GD71804@bsdcrew.de> In-Reply-To: <4A0C87D0.8060105@entel.upc.edu> References: <20090514191237.GD70242@bsdcrew.de> <4A0C87D0.8060105@entel.upc.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:06:24PM +0200, Gustau Pérez wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin Wilke wrote: > > > > Howdy Guys, > > > > After the announcement from Alexander Eichner about Virtualbox on > > FreeBSD, we started the work on a port for FreeBSD. Now we think > > that we solved the most problems and are ready for the first Call > > for Testing. > > > > Some notes before you can test the port: Make sure you are using > > RELENG_7 or higher. You have to use a fresh portstree with uptodate > > ports!! Please read carefully the pkg-messages. > > > > Some known issues / Troubleshooting: Sometimes the kernel on HEAD > > coredumps when loading or unloading the kernel module. A small > > workaround to prevent the crash is to not start X, mount proc, then > > load the kernel module and start X from the console. That helped me > > and some testers, maybe you too. :P AMD64 should be work in > > general, it builds and start. But not right tested at the moment. > > We want here also some feedback. > > > > Some Thanks: First of all we'd like to say many thanks to _ALL_ > > vbox developers. Next people are Bernhard Froehlich (aka decke), > > Beat Gaetzi (beat@), Dennis Herrmann (dhn@), Pietro Cerutti > > (gahr@), myself (*gg*), and _ALL_ who helped and provided feedback. > > > > > > Happy Testing :-) > > > > Download: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/vbox/vboxport.tgz > > > > Wiki Page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox > > > I'm testing with i386/HEAD. I have two issues : > > 1.- The first time I start a machine. The window stays gray. If > I pause and resume the window turns to > black. Virtualbox says it is running, but it is not. > > 2.- The second and subsequent times I start a virtual machine, > virtualbox says that there isn't the kernel driver. The > error is : > > Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) > Component: Machine > Interface: IMachine {4d1df26d-d9c1-4c7e-b689-15e85ecf8ffc} > > And : > > Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) > > Make sure the kernel module has been loaded successfully. > > What can be done ? > > Regards, > > Gustau Unfortunately, I saw this problem today also, I'll set this to our todo. Thanks > > > > > - Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > - -- > PGP KEY : http://www-entel.upc.edu/gus/gus.asc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkoMh9AACgkQAvcpDulVChDtMACdGK3ggUplPWifN4ozP2Ac5fOa > pjQAn2ErwBcuTAfn/coIaY12J4lGQrUX > =5myk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > - -- +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ | PGP : 0xB1E6FCE9 | Jabber : miwi(at)BSDCrew.de | | ICQ : 169139903 | Mail : miwi(at)FreeBSD.org | +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ | Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest! | +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkoNHE0ACgkQdLJIhLHm/OnQTACfTk4ohhMGHtxgMjjHuDVRwAmm Zc0An0cPJxRsElv+cfpO8hjNFF4N7J5W =iP3/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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