From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 19 16:06:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7761065693 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:06:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivier@gid0.org) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41388FC1C for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyb26 with SMTP id 26so4616325iyb.13 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:06:53 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.241.195 with SMTP id lf3mr2438355icb.472.1298131612747; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:06:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.145.198 with HTTP; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:06:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1298098767.5149.8.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> References: <1298078690.4289.6.camel@main> <1298098767.5149.8.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:06:52 +0100 Message-ID: From: Olivier Smedts To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Craig Butler , ports@freebsd.org, Bernhard Froehlich Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:06:54 -0000 2011/2/19 Bernhard Fr=F6hlich : > ----- Urspr=FCngliche 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 als= o >> > very helpful to us but we could need a few more hands to better keep u= p >> > with the work and especially improve and fix the Guest Additions. So i= f >> > 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 G=E4tzi >> > - Bernhard Fr=F6hlich >> > - crsd >> > - DomiX >> > - Doug Barton >> > - Grzegorz Blach >> > - Hans Petter Selasky >> > - Julian Stacey >> > - Jung-uk Kim >> > - J=FCrgen 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. >> > 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 fi= rst. > >> * 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 : =3D=3D=3D> Installing for virtualbox-ose-4.0.4 =3D=3D=3D> Generating temporary packing list =3D=3D=3D> Checking if emulators/virtualbox-ose already installed =3D=3D=3D> 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 amd= 64. % 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. >> # 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 mailingli= st. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 Olivier Smedts=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0 _ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0 ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier@gid0.org=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 - against HTML email & vCards=A0 X www: http://www.gid0.org=A0 =A0 - against proprietary attachments / \ =A0 "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : =A0 ceux qui comprennent le binaire, =A0 et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."