Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:50:15 +0100 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: CFT: Fix VirtualBox on 9-CURRENT and recent STABLE Message-ID: <51c4b7c5374e5d3f089f915820f6b900@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <f973dd7f19ab7571de8df8b9b9952a10@bluelife.at> References: <d536d8b7be7dd55119c45ddcfe7c17a2@bluelife.at> <4B970FA5.70200@FreeBSD.org> <f973dd7f19ab7571de8df8b9b9952a10@bluelife.at>
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:05:03 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:19:01 -0800, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> On 03/09/10 08:45, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: >> >>> - get the tarball from >>> http://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r755.tar.gz >> >> I'm building this now, will report if it works or not (it was previously >> broken for me). However I noticed that the -ose-devel port doesn't work >> with guestadditions (not in distinfo). Will the new version work with >> the old guestadditions.iso? If so, any chance of having the test port >> updated? > > Yes, i've seen that too when updating but did not have a quick solution > for that so i left it as it was. I think you can take the 3.1.4 iso and it > should mostly work. The real solution would be to create a new port that > builds the guestadditions.iso from the OSE sources but i've never tried it > and i'm not sure if it is that easy on FreeBSD. That is a bigger task for > sure. I've had a talk to the vbox developers and they say that the additions are always compatible. You can always take the code from the OSE repository and the latest released guestadditions.iso and it will work. So i will fix that in the devel ports. -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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