Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:11:12 +0100 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> To: Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org> Cc: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4 Message-ID: <9efd7b89e7840a0ac6f880a0a556531c@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinqcba0-GQtU4E-wYMke4Fw_B=9FDYA-6nz1cMj@mail.gmail.com> References: <b683ad8257f999241d9ad1e76136c732@bluelife.at> "<1298078690.4289.6.camel@main>" <1298098767.5149.8.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> <AANLkTinqcba0-GQtU4E-wYMke4Fw_B=9FDYA-6nz1cMj@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:06:52 +0100, Olivier Smedts wrote: > 2011/2/19 Bernhard Fröhlich <decke@bluelife.at>: >> ----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung ----- >>> On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:21 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich 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. > > I had to s/png.5/png.6/ and s/curl.5/curl.6/ in the Makefile of > emulators/virtualbox-ose, else it tried to install again png and curl. > My ports are all up-to-date. Don't know what you have done but the Makefile contains png.6 and curl.6. Please check again what you have downloaded and extracted. It seems to be wrong in a weird way. >>> > 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 >>> > >>> >>> Hi Folks >>> >>> Seems to be working ok for me... >>> I had to; >>> * remove stale /usr/ports/emulators/virualbox* directories (old patch >>> file was causing build to fail) >> >> I should have mentioned that. Please move the old ports out of the way first. >> >>> * remove the stale vboxusers group, the install was complaining cause it >>> couldn't set vboxusers gid to 920 >> >> Sounds strange and should not happen. > > Happens to me too : > ===> Installing for virtualbox-ose-4.0.4 > ===> Generating temporary packing list > ===> Checking if emulators/virtualbox-ose already installed > ===> Creating users and/or groups. > Using existing group `vboxusers'. > Creating user `vboxusers' with uid `920'. > pw: group `920' does not exist > *** Error code 67 > > I previously had virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 installed. I'm running > 9-CURRENT amd64. > > % grep vboxusers /etc/passwd > % grep vboxusers /etc/group > vboxusers:*:919:root,zozo > > Does it really needs a "vboxusers" *user* (not speaking of the group) > ? It tries to set the gid of the user to 920, but the previously used > gid was 919. Please follow UPDATING - also valid for entries that are nearly 2 years old. 20090617: AFFECTS: users of emulators/virtualbox AUTHOR: beat@FreeBSD.org The GID of virtualbox has changed due to a conflict with databases/couchdb. Update GID of vboxusers after updating the port: # pw groupmod vboxusers -g 920 >>> # uname -rp >>> 8.1-RELEASE-p2 i386 >>> >>> I have tried fedora and windows xp guests, both running fine. >>> >>> I cant seem to get usb pass through working tho, when I go to add usb >>> device it says 'no devices available', do we need to manually setup the >>> device info ? >> >> Yeah i want to document it on the virtualbox wiki page but until that you could search for the mail of hans petter selasky on the vbox-dev mailinglist. -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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