Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 08:17:07 -0300 From: Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com> To: Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <747dc8f30905150417h3abb1b09s7e56f348ad3cbfbe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090514191237.GD70242@bsdcrew.de> References: <20090514191237.GD70242@bsdcrew.de>
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On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > 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: > > =A0http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/vbox/vboxport.tgz > > Wiki Page: > =A0http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox Hello Martin I've built it on i386/CURRENT r191522, but I couldn't load the module, when i try, i got: KLD vboxdrv.ko: depends on kernel - not available kldload: can't load vboxdrv: File exists It says file exists, but the module is not loaded root@botelhor:/home/garga# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 18 0xc0400000 b584bc kernel 2 1 0xc0f59000 809c snd_via8233.ko 3 2 0xc0f62000 4a438 sound.ko 4 1 0xc46af000 8000 linprocfs.ko 5 1 0xc46c8000 24000 linux.ko Any idea? --=20 Renato Botelho
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