From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 9 23:05:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23EF083A; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 23:05:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB008FC08; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 23:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 16so2930270wgi.31 for ; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:05:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0Rj6xv4HX8CZPDkNu5MpM3t7IyTYYa/Axu6uwSL3Qzo=; b=lywPMPIoGpoUD5sO4sjfyLd188SGJvYeT5EkuFvsHH/WWYWeMSrV7NPccf/kH7Q59b jqpdH9SvAKNA8wH+qykiZLUI1hjH39thRQCy1P3yKWn947976prFqkm2+/fvAwECSRHb trwYjw3F7w5o66K38TjUpTBTyoJ+jZVCkIJLrQX0CaUUXohw4wUo/WDVMDUzFb+4vpXu Dom0PLaThEPlsqoGih476rTessyBqLMvlqhEd4g9OAAcTUObwPMAuaQVVNSQaTnlqJaP vjufhbyBrS+2A8VgLnV9XuRposkQqMZWGJV28DtaPqpADOcZtRmI/RKx2F/qi1t0oxen DJVQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.135.25 with SMTP id t25mr5086279wei.106.1352502322744; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:05:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.217.54.72 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 15:05:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 17:05:21 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.4 From: Brandon Gooch To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:05:25 -0000 On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich wro= te: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Brandon Gooch > wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich = 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