Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 (PBIs now available)

[Kris Moore]

On 04/27/2011 12:09, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:07:16 -0400, Kris Moore wrote:
>> On 04/26/2011 16:18, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>>> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:42:29 -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Bernhard Froehlich
>>>> <decke at freebsd.org>   wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:01:40 +0200, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>>>>>> PBIs for PC-BSD are currently worked on and will hopefully be available
>>>>>> in a few days.
>>>>> Thanks a lot to Jesse Smith, Dru Lavigne and Ken Moore for the efforts
>>>>> to provide the PBIs!
>>>>>
>>>>> PC-BSD 8.x 32bit:
>>>>> http://disasterarea.chruetertee.ch/virtualbox/4.0.6/virtualbox-4.0.6-i386.pbi
>>>>> ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/pbioutgoing/i386/8/emulators/virtualbox-ose/virtualbox-4.0.6-i386.pbi
>>>>>
>>>>> PC-BSD 8.x 64bit:
>>>>> http://disasterarea.chruetertee.ch/virtualbox/4.0.6/virtualbox-4.0.6-amd64.pbi
>>>>> ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/pbioutgoing/x64/8/emulators/virtualbox-ose/virtualbox-4.0.6-amd64.pbi
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Feedback (positive and negative) from PC-BSD users is very welcome!
>>>>>
>>>> I installed the 64-bit PBI on my PC-BSD 8.2 machine, but I am unable
>>>> to start any virtual machines(both pre-existing VMs or a new VM that I
>>>> tried to create).  I get the following error dialog:
>>>>
>>>> Failed to open a session for the virtual machine RELENG_8_amd64.
>>>>
>>>> Failed to load VMMR0.r0
>>>> (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED).
>>>>
>>>> Unknown error creating VM
>>>> (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED).
>>>>
>>>> Details:
>>>>
>>>> Result Code:
>>>> NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
>>>> Component:
>>>> Console
>>>> Interface:
>>>> IConsole {515e8e8d-f932-4d8e-9f32-79a52aead882}
>>> Yeah, thanks we already know. They added some strict hardening checks
>>> in virtualbox 4.0 that fail on PC-BSD. Kris Moore is currently
>>> rebuilding the PBIs with some modifications.
>>>
>>> That's exactly why we have call for testers so find such weird problems
>>> that nobody could think of.
>>>
>> This bug has been fixed now for the 8.x / amd64 version of VirtualBox
>> 4.0.6 PBI:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/pbioutgoing/x64/8/emulators/virtualbox-ose/virtualbox-4.0.6-amd64.pbi
>>
>> The 32bit version is still in the queue for rebuilding, but should be
>> done in the next 24 hours or so.
> Thanks a lot! Have you made any changes that we can include in the vbox
> port or just the pbi packaging?
>
No problem!

This particular bug was related to how we build our PBIs, using a 
LOCALBASE which was a sym-link to elsewhere. By switching LOCALBASE back 
to the full-directory path, it corrected the issue. I'm not sure if 
that's something you need to fix in the port, but it may be good to note 
for anybody else using a non-standard LOCALBASE.


-- 
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
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