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Date:      Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:54:03 +0200
From:      Beat Gaetzi <beat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jochen Keil <jochen.keil@gmail.com>
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.org, vbox@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: virtualbox-2.2.51.r20457_3 from ports
Message-ID:  <4A807ADB.6010104@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A7FF1F3.8070506@gmail.com>
References:  <4A7FF1F3.8070506@gmail.com>

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Hi,

Jochen Keil wrote:
> * kldloading vboxdrv.ko crashed my box, loading on boot via loader.conf
> works with problems though

This is a known problem. All known problems are documented on our wiki
page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox

> * /usr/local/lib/virtualbox is only readable by root:
> $ ls -ld /usr/local/lib/virtualbox
> drwx------  3 root  wheel  1024 10 Aug 03:32 /usr/local/lib/virtualbox

Unfortunately I could not reproduce this problem here. What umask does
your root user use?

> * /usr/local/lib seems a bit odd as an installation location for a
> freebsd user although somebody mentioned to me that this is/was common
> on system v and solaris.

Do to the virtualbox hardening we are forced to use this installation
location.

Beat



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