Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:22:14 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Olivier Cochard-Labbe <olivier@freenas.org>, freebsd-ports-mailinglist <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VirtualBox looks for FreeBSD developer Message-ID: <20080307012214.GF2962@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20080229210455.GC2952@k7.mavetju> References: <3131aa530802260145y48e37284j4b03e6cd1f933027@mail.gmail.com> <47C412E4.9020305@quip.cz> <20080228134436.GA2759@k7.mavetju> <20080228212051.GA2962@k7.mavetju> <3131aa530802291248r1da47960q233d9ccae8e278c1@mail.gmail.com> <20080229210455.GC2952@k7.mavetju>
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On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 08:04:55AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:48:45PM +0100, Olivier Cochard-Labbe wrote: > > I can't compile VirtualBox with your patch (I'm using a FreeBSD 7.0Release). > > It works with 6.3, 7.0 has the ULE scheduler which doesn't have sched_lock. > > Rink@ has been trying to get it work on 7.0, but... > "<rink> Mavvie: haven't gotten it to link yet :-/" > > It works on 6.3, until you try to start the VM: > > With VBOX_SUPLIB_FAKE=fake set you get: > VM creation failed (GVMM). VBox status code: -37 (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED). > > Without it (i.e. using the "kernel" module): > Failed to load VMMR0.r0. VBox status code: -609 (VERR_SYMBOL_NOT_FOUND). > > And the documentation about the kernel module as described on > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Porting_VirtualBox are lacking a bit > of essential information. FYI: I've given up on it, despite the fact that it compiles and runs on 6.3, I can't get around the problems with the kernel driver and the lack of documentation. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
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