Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update

Daichi GOTO daichi at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 17 03:35:56 UTC 2010


At the moment, VirtualBox 3.1.4 working well on FreeBSD 9-CURRENT/amd64
(r205154: Mon Mar 15 00:55:16 JST 2010). Tested guest OS is WinXP and
Ubuntu 9.10 (32/64 both).
Thanks great work you virtualbox guys!!

On 2010/03/12 19:21, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> Grias di,
>
> we are preparing the VirtualBox 3.1.4 update to fix the vtophys problems
> with the current port on 9-CURRENT and STABLE kernels and need some
> feedback for this. Many thanks to all developers and testers that helped
> to track this issue down and Alexander Eichner for all the work and
> fixing it.
>
>
> Changelog from VirtualBox is available here:
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>
> Changes in the port:
>    - VirtualBox and Guest Additions updated to 3.1.4
>    - Add UNIQUENAME to fix options file clashes between the virtualbox
>      ports [0]
>    - Fixed vtophys problems on CURRENT and STABLE kernes newer than
>      January 23th [1]
>    - Fixed page double wiring issue in rtR0MemObjNativeAllocPage [2]
>
> PR: ports/143361 [0]
> Submitted by: Martin Birgmeier<martin.birgmeier AT aon.at>  [0]
>                Alexander Eichner<Alexander.Eichner AT Sun.COM>  [1]
> Thanks To: All testers on emulation@ and current@ [1]
>             Giovanni Trematerra<giovanni.trematerra AT gmail.com>  [1]
>             Ian Freislich<ianf AT clue.co.za>  [1]
> Reported by: Alan Cox<alc AT cs dot rice dot edu>  [2]
>
>
> How to upgrade:
>    - Fetch the new ports:
>      # fetch http://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r758.tar.gz
>      # tar xf virtualbox-port-r758.tar.gz
>
>    - Build the new ports:
>      # cd virtualbox-ose-kmod&&  make
>      # cd ../virtualbox-ose&&  make
>
>    - If build was ok, deinstall old port
>      # pkg_delete virtualbox-\*
>
>    - Install new ports:
>      # cd ../virtualbox-ose-kmod&&  make install clean
>      # cd ../virtualbox-ose&&  make install clean
>
> For FreeBSD guests within VirtualBox please use the
> emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions port from the FreeBSD ports tree.
>
>
> Check the wiki page for known problems: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
>
> Please report any functionality which was working with previous versions
> of VirtualBox and no longer working with 3.1.4 or any build failure.
>
> Many thanks to the VirtualBox developers, all testers and patch submitters
> and the whole vbox@ team.
>
>
> Happy Testing!
>
> - - Bernhard (decke) on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team

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