Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 17:05:21 -0600 From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@freebsd.org> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.4 Message-ID: <CALBk6yK0jrr7wd65f73U%2Bo%2BBKbRL228KatnqMyBPAOW-0KxBFA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE-m3X2X%2Bmtr7P538jaySLZTzJf8Zn%2BphADGR%2BsMRTzdhgijRw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAE-m3X0bA2g3yMomta1pZwtfi_FawDvzyE=aKaJ6x_QFRVMtOA@mail.gmail.com> <CALBk6yJAiJvLYfhfdT8hRd9Y4Ojf8vjgZBc-C6tXQqkwbrrexQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAE-m3X2X%2Bmtr7P538jaySLZTzJf8Zn%2BphADGR%2BsMRTzdhgijRw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich <decke@freebsd.org> wro= te: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Brandon Gooch > <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich <decke@freebsd.org>= wrote: >>> Hi virtualbox users! >>> >>> This is again a call for testers to get some feedback before we commit >>> VirtualBox 4.2 to the portstree. If you already run VirtualBox 4.2.0 yo= u >>> should definitely update to 4.2.4 because they fixed quite a few seriou= s >>> bugs upstream. >>> >>> Our plan is still to commit 4.2 to the portstree as soon as FreeBSD 9.1 >>> is out the door. >>> >>> If you are interested in helping with virtualbox maintenance and >>> development or have noticed a bug you can easily find us on IRC. >>> >>> >>> Please update devel/kBuild-devel before updating any of the virtualbox >>> ports and ensure that your Kernel sources match your running kernel >>> before building the virtualbox-ose-kmod port. >>> >>> Changes since VirtualBox 4.1: >>> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog >>> >>> VirtualBox 4.2.4 and 4.1.22 (legacy) Ports: >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~decke/virtualbox/virtualbox-cft-4.2.4-201210= 30.tar.gz >>> >>> IRC: #freebsd-vbox on Freenode >>> >>> >>> Bernhard on behalf of the new VirtualBox on FreeBSD Team! >>> >>> -- >>> Bernhard Froehlich >>> http://www.bluelife.at/ >> >> I've updated to 4.2.4 on my system running HEAD. I've hit one annoying i= ssue. >> >> I've been running the 4.2.0 Call for Testing for a while now, and it >> worked very well. >> >> After updating to 4.2.4 and updating the guest additions on several >> Linux guests, I've found that 3D acceleration is broken. The guest on >> which I didn't update the guest additions (so it's still running >> version 4.2.0 guest additions), 3D acceleration works great. >> >> This is a nuisance on systems which had some form of compositing >> enabled (e.g. compiz) because the login process (GDM in this case) >> just spins indefinitely waiting on (I presume) the window manager to >> fire up. >> >> Anyone else seeing this? > > Hm haven't checked that recently. The only thing that changed between 4.2= .0 > and 4.2.2 from FreeBSD side was that we have enabled DRM in the additions > for FreeBSD guests but that should not affect Linux guests at all. > > I will check if I can reproduce that. > > -- > Bernhard Froehlich > http://www.bluelife.at/ I downgraded the guest additions from 4.2.4 to 4.2.0 and functionality is restored. This seems to be an issue with other host environments as well. Here's an example: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3D3&t=3D52215 -Brandon
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