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Date:      Fri, 15 May 2009 00:32:02 +0300
From:      "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com>
To:        Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD!
Message-ID:  <20090515003202.57d3f2e2@notebook>
In-Reply-To: <20090514191237.GD70242@bsdcrew.de>
References:  <20090514191237.GD70242@bsdcrew.de>

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On Thu, 14 May 2009 21:12:37 +0200
Martin Wilke <miwi@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

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MW> Howdy Guys,
MW> 
MW> After the announcement from Alexander Eichner about
MW> Virtualbox on FreeBSD, we started the work on a port
MW> for FreeBSD. Now we think that we solved the most
MW> problems and are ready for the first Call for Testing.
MW> 
MW> Some notes before you can test the port:
MW> Make sure you are using RELENG_7 or higher. You have
MW> to use a fresh portstree with uptodate ports!! Please
MW> read carefully the pkg-messages.
MW> 
MW> Some known issues / Troubleshooting:
MW> Sometimes the kernel on HEAD coredumps when loading
MW> or unloading the kernel module. A small workaround
MW> to prevent the crash is to not start X, mount proc,
MW> then load the kernel module and start X from the
MW> console. That helped me and some testers, maybe you
MW> too. :P AMD64 should be work in general, it builds
MW> and start. But not right tested at the moment. We
MW> want here also some feedback.

I can't start a virtual machine (current from May, 9). 
screenshot: http://msk.bsd.by/vbox.png
After kldunload vboxdrv I got kernel panic:(
MW> 
MW> Some Thanks:
MW> First of all we'd like to say many thanks to _ALL_
MW> vbox developers. Next people are Bernhard Froehlich
MW> (aka decke), Beat Gaetzi (beat@), Dennis Herrmann
MW> (dhn@), Pietro Cerutti (gahr@), myself (*gg*),
MW> and _ALL_ who helped and provided feedback.

I would like to join thanks, thank you for good job

MW> Happy Testing :-)
MW> 
MW> Download:
MW> 
MW>  http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/vbox/vboxport.tgz
MW> 
MW> Wiki Page:
MW>  http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
MW> 
MW>  - Martin 


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wbr,  tiger



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