Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:21:04 +0100 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> To: "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4 Message-ID: <8f6ac5765524e93e216d466b3eb8e84e@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <20110218220905.22b7da2b@gmail.com> References: <b683ad8257f999241d9ad1e76136c732@bluelife.at> <20110218220905.22b7da2b@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:09:05 +0200, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:21:52 +0100 > Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> Hi Testers. >> >> A few of you have probably wondered what happened to our VirtualBox >> efforts for FreeBSD. Well it took a bit longer then expected and a few >> problems were found that needed to be resolved first but most of the >> things are looking fine now and almost all patches have been pushed >> upstream with 4.0.4 so here we are now. >> >> We will continue to work on VirtualBox for FreeBSD and upstream is >> also very helpful to us but we could need a few more hands to better >> keep up with the work and especially improve and fix the Guest >> Additions. So if you want to help please contact us or have a look at >> our Todo list. >> >> This result wouldn't have been possible without the continuous help of >> the VirtualBox Developers and a lot of people from the FreeBSD >> community! (names in alphabetical order and probably missed a few, >> sorry >> for that!) >> >> - Alexander Eichner >> - Anonymous >> - Beat Gätzi >> - Bernhard Fröhlich >> - crsd >> - DomiX >> - Doug Barton >> - Grzegorz Blach >> - Hans Petter Selasky >> - Julian Stacey >> - Jung-uk Kim >> - Jürgen Lock >> - Klaus Espenlaub >> - Martin Wilke >> - Mattia Rossi >> - Michael Butler >> - Sean C. Farley >> - Steve Wills >> - tombsd >> - Vivek Khera >> - well-wisher >> - Wietse Venema >> - Yuri >> - many more from emulation@ >> >> Please when testing this ports backup all your virtual machines first. >> Also please build the port with DEBUG option enabled and send us the >> logfile when any VM crashes. Without them it's very hard to figure out >> what went wrong. >> >> >> Highlights with 4.0: >> - USB support (by Hans Petter Selasky) >> - Asynchronous I/O >> - Guest additions got startscripts and a integration into the desktop >> environments >> - www/phpvirtualbox updated to 4.0-3 >> >> Changelog for 4.0: >> - http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog >> >> Short configuration help: >> - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox >> >> Todo List: >> - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox/ToDo >> >> >> http://home.bluelife.at/ports/virtualbox-cft-20110218.tar.gz >> >> >> Thanks and good luck, >> Bernhard, on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team >> > CONFLICTS missing for -kmod: > > laptop# pkg_info -xI virt > virtualbox-ose-4.0.4 A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware > virtualbox-ose-additions-4.0.4 VirtualBox additions for FreeBSD guests > virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.12_1 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD > virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.4 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD Thanks. Fixed in the repository in r1222 http://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports/revision/?rev=1222 -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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