Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:55:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at> To: "Olivier Smedts" <olivier@gid0.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Subject: Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6 Message-ID: <a6f8124638cc81f6356ec99282a22898.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> In-Reply-To: <367b2c980909071048j79b28babwcc9d59488d1de3ef@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090611194557.GC98175@bsdcrew.de> <E1MkFAi-0005OD-K0@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <991123400909060811u9bea4d9rdbf453dfaae7c185@mail.gmail.com> <20090906162544.GA39448@bsdcrew.de> <E1MkWyt-000Eoi-1c@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <50e4b96fb035ba5eaf5e30fbf12bf9f2.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> <367b2c980909071048j79b28babwcc9d59488d1de3ef@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, September 7, 2009 7:48 pm, Olivier Smedts wrote: > 2009/9/7 Bernhard Fröhlich <decke@bluelife.at>: >> On Mon, September 7, 2009 7:41 am, Danny Braniss wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>>> > > > >>>> > > ok, so some time has passed, but virtualbox-2.2.51r20457.tar.gz is >>>> no >>>> > > longer available, there is a >>>> > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/virtualbox-2.2.51r20457.tar.bz2 >>>> > > then again in ports/emulatores/virtualbox the version is >>>> 3.0.51r22226, >>>> > > >>>> > > can someone please explain? >>> >>> hi, the above was my question, which was totally ignored, not nice. >>> I will try and refrase it: >>> the call for testing is for a version (2.2.51r20457) which is not >>> available, while >>> the ports is 3.0.51r22226, so while I managed to compile it, it >>> complains >>> that COM >>> is not running, all this under 8BETA-3, both under 32 and 64 bit. >> >> I'll try to be nice but it is still unclear to me what you want. The >> file >> is available on all 4 master sites that are listed in the ports >> Makefile. >> >> The virtualbox port is still in heavy development so it is strongly >> recommended that you use the latest version that is in the ports. If >> that >> also does not work you could give our svn version a try but be careful >> with it because it can break in strange ways or destroy your virtual >> machines. >> >> svn co >> http://svn.bluelife.at/projects/packages/blueports/emulators/virtualbox/ > > Wow... the SVN version works great for me with VT extensions ! I just > tried a 64 bits 2 processors guest :) > > Thanks ! According to Alexander Eichner VT-x should work now with the latest vbox code. So everybody who is using our svn port should already have working VT-x. We plan to update the virtualbox port in the next few days to get that version in the tree before the ports freeze. -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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