VirtualBox 3.1.6 does not work under i386 kernel

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:37:19 +0900, "Daisuke Aoyama" <aoyama at peach.ne.jp>
wrote:
> I am working on making VirtualBox 3.1.6 after releasing FreeNAS 0.7.1.
> I found VirtualBox 3.1.6 does not work under i386 kernel.
> It seems PNG library is not used correctly in VBoxC.so.
> However, I don't know how to correct it by smart way.
> Also I cannot test it under X11.
>
> Could you test my patch under X11 + i386 kernel?
> Before patch, you will get like this:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [aoyama at freenas225 ~]$ VBoxManage list vms
> Sun VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.1.6_OSE
> (C) 2005-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> All rights reserved.
> 
> ERROR: failed to create a session object!
> ERROR: code NS_ERROR_FACTORY_NOT_REGISTERED (0x80040154) - Class not
> registered (extended info not available)
> Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to
start.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> After patch, you should be able to use VirtualBox 3.1.6.

That sounds similar to PR ports/145457 but I could not reproduce that yet.
Could you try the patch from the PR and see if it works for you?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/145457

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