VDE Support in devel port [WAS: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update]

[Bernhard Froehlich]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Bernhard;
> 
> I see that VDE support was added with svn r28542, which I have not
tested
> yet 
> but can only see thrilled reports about it.
> 
> The line: 
> 
> [ "$OS" = "linux" -o "$OS" = "freebsd" ] && echo "  --enable-vde  enable
> VDE 
> networking" 
> 
> in "work/VirtualBox-3.1.51.r28542_OSE/configure" is not "TRUEing"
> "$OS" = "freebsd", and thus, VDE support was not compiled in. 
> 
> I manually added "--enable-vde" to following line in the port's
Makefile:
> 
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-gcc="${CC}" --with-g++="${CXX}" --enable-vde
> 
> This corrected the problem. Now the VDE Adapter appears in the "Attached
> to" 
> listBox.
> 
> Could the configure script be patched to set the condition to TRUE, or
> maybe 
> the port Makefile could have --enable-vde added, on the next port
> revision?

beat@ has updated the devel ports and added VDE and VNC support. A few
weeks ago there was also a VNC patch committed upstream so vbox will not
need to be patched in the future to have vnc support.

http://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports/revision/?rev=803

-- 
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/