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Date:      Fri, 4 Aug 2017 11:10:18 +0100
From:      Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox bridged networking stopped working after upgrading host to 11.1 RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20170804111018.5f4459b2@curlew>
In-Reply-To: <20170803125642.4e4133ff@curlew>
References:  <20170802211628.1e40814f@curlew> <20170802190734.3f95f36e@Papi> <20170803125642.4e4133ff@curlew>

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On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 12:56:42 +0100
Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> wrote:

> It looks like the problem is related to virtualbox-ose-kmod installed
> from the FreeBSD package repository not being compatible with 11.1.
> 
> I'm running virtualbox-ose-5.1.26 and virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.1.26 on
> 11.1-RELEASE. Rebuilding virtualbox-ose-kmod from ports and keeping
> virtualbox-ose from packages fixed the problem. 

On further thoughts I suppose there's no way of avoiding this.
virtualbox-ose-kmod requires kernel source files in /usr/src in order
to build so we can't assume that virtualbox-ose-kmod from the package
repository will be compatible with any release version above x.0

-- 
Mike Clarke



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