Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:23:39 -0500 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4 Message-ID: <4D5EE35B.10401@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20110218185816.3b9d6b12@gmail.com> References: <b683ad8257f999241d9ad1e76136c732@bluelife.at> <20110218185816.3b9d6b12@gmail.com>
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On 02/18/11 11:58, 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, >> In my dmesg: KLD vboxdrv.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch linker_load_file: Unsupported file type KLD vboxdrv.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch linker_load_file: Unsupported file type KLD vboxnetflt.ko: depends on vboxdrv - not available or version mismatch linker_load_file: Unsupported file type beta# uname -a FreeBSD beta.maestro.njit.edu 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Dec 14 18:24:33 EST 2010 tkellers@beta.maestro.njit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOVNINE amd64 Rebuilding world and kernel, now, just to be sure I'm following the directions: I csup /usr/src and /usr/ports hourly I'm completely new to Virtual Box, so I could be tripping over something silly. Tim Kellers
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