[Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.3.2 : Success

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:42:49 +0100
> Mikaël Urankar <mikael.urankar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please CC: me on replies, I am not subscribed to freebsd-emulation.
>>
>> VirtualBox-4.3.2 works fine on my environment :
>> FreeBSD desktop-016.xxx 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #6 r258424M:
>> Thu Nov 21 09:54:40 CET 2013
>> mik at desktop-016.xx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ACHERON  amd64
>>
>> I need the following file in the root folder (if I don't put the
>> "<Global>" tag I have this error message : Failed to create the
>> VirtualBox COM object) :
>> cat /root/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings"
>> version="1.12-freebsd">
>>   <Global>
>>   </Global>
>> </VirtualBox>
>>
>> On my user session :
>>  - I need to "unsetenv QT_PLUGIN_PATH" to prevent VirtualBox from
>> segfault'ing (I'm running KDE) session
>>  - I've cleaned my user's VirtualBox.xml config file : I've removed
>> some "MachineEntry uuid" that were giving me the infamous "Failed to
>> create the VirtualBox COM object"
>>
>> Thanks for your work,
>> WBR
>> Mikaël
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>
> I wish i could say the same.
>
> I switched from FBSD 8.4 to 9.2 and still can't compile 4.3.x. 4.3.4
> doesn't even apply the patches correctly. The previous 4.3.x at least
> did that.

I wonder where you have that 4.3.4 port from. But it might be that you
have messed it up or did not use the only trustworthy source for vbox [1]
ports or just copied it over an existing port.

[1] svn co https://svn.redports.org/virtualbox

> 4.2.20 doesn't compile either. It ends with this error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl
> kmk: ***
> [/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.2.20/out/freebsd.amd64/release/obj/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so]
> Error 1
>
> Dispite my attempt to remove -ldl (which applies to only to linux,
> according to what i googled) from all occurences I could find, it
> somehow keeps sneaking in again.

There is no 4.2.20 port yet so I can't say much about that except
that I don't know how your port looks like and I can't support stuff
I don't know. If you want to fiddle around with vbox port development
please join us on IRC. (#freebsd-vbox on freenode)

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