Making progress with VirtualBox and 8-stable

[Warren Block]

VirtualBox had been locking up the host machine when trying to start a 
VM.  The VM black screen would show, but it would lock before even 
showing the BIOS boot message.

VirtualBox now starts VMs again, although they don't manage to power off 
after shutdown.  The process is stopped, but doesn't exit.  The log 
shows lots of 00:02:55.042 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_ACCESSDENIED (0x80070005) 
aIID={2d1a531b-4c6e-49cc-8af6-5c857b78b5d7} aComponent={Keyboard} 
aText={The console is not powered up} aWarning=false, preserve=false.

/var/log/messages shows
warning: KLD '/boot/modules/vboxnetflt.ko' is newer than the linker.hints file
warning: KLD '/boot/modules/vboxnetadp.ko' is newer than the linker.hints file


Steps I took:

Update to 8-stable as of last night.

Get patches from 
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=117387+0+archive/2010/freebsd-emulation/20100228.freebsd-emulation
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=24423+0+current/freebsd-emulation

Apply patches to both emulators/virtualbox-ose and 
emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod by adding them to the files directory.


-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA