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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 2013 13:18:29 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>
Cc:        "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.3.2 : Success
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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Bernhard Fr=F6hlich <decke@freebsd.org> wro=
te:
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:42:49 +0100
>> Mika=EBl Urankar <mikael.urankar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please CC: me on replies, I am not subscribed to freebsd-emulation.
>>>
>>> VirtualBox-4.3.2 works fine on my environment :
>>> FreeBSD desktop-016.xxx 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #6 r258424M:
>>> Thu Nov 21 09:54:40 CET 2013
>>> mik@desktop-016.xx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ACHERON  amd64
>>>
>>> I need the following file in the root folder (if I don't put the
>>> "<Global>" tag I have this error message : Failed to create the
>>> VirtualBox COM object) :
>>> cat /root/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
>>> <?xml version=3D"1.0"?>
>>> <VirtualBox xmlns=3D"http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings"
>>> version=3D"1.12-freebsd">
>>>   <Global>
>>>   </Global>
>>> </VirtualBox>
>>>
>>> On my user session :
>>>  - I need to "unsetenv QT_PLUGIN_PATH" to prevent VirtualBox from
>>> segfault'ing (I'm running KDE) session
>>>  - I've cleaned my user's VirtualBox.xml config file : I've removed
>>> some "MachineEntry uuid" that were giving me the infamous "Failed to
>>> create the VirtualBox COM object"
>>>
>>> Thanks for your work,
>>> WBR
>>> Mika=EBl
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>>
>> I wish i could say the same.
>>
>> I switched from FBSD 8.4 to 9.2 and still can't compile 4.3.x. 4.3.4
>> doesn't even apply the patches correctly. The previous 4.3.x at least
>> did that.
>
> I wonder where you have that 4.3.4 port from. But it might be that you
> have messed it up or did not use the only trustworthy source for vbox [1]
> ports or just copied it over an existing port.
>
> [1] svn co https://svn.redports.org/virtualbox
>
>> 4.2.20 doesn't compile either. It ends with this error:
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl
>> kmk: ***
>> [/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.2.20/out/freebsd.=
amd64/release/obj/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so]
>> Error 1
>>
>> Dispite my attempt to remove -ldl (which applies to only to linux,
>> according to what i googled) from all occurences I could find, it
>> somehow keeps sneaking in again.

Btw this has already been fixed in our development port I think.

https://redports.org/changeset/20207/virtualbox

> There is no 4.2.20 port yet so I can't say much about that except
> that I don't know how your port looks like and I can't support stuff
> I don't know. If you want to fiddle around with vbox port development
> please join us on IRC. (#freebsd-vbox on freenode)
>
> --
> Bernhard Froehlich
> http://www.bluelife.at/

--=20
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/



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