ports/183085: emulators/virtualbox-ose failed to work on FreeBSD 10-BETA1

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From: Photo stuff <w-info2 at xs4all.nl>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, gosha-necr at yandex.ru
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/183085: emulators/virtualbox-ose failed to work on FreeBSD
 10-BETA1
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:49:50 +0100

 L.S.
 
 I can report that on FreeBSD 10.0 Beta 2, Virtualbox 
 virtualbox-ose-4.2.18_1 fails with the same messages:
 
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 VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object!
 VBoxManage: error: Code NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004) - Operation aborted 
 (extended info not available)
 VBoxManage: error: Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running 
 or failed to start.
 ---
 
 Also, removing .Virtualbox directory which is mentioned in various 
 places on the web going back for a few years, does not work for me either.
 
 Starting VBoxSVC in one xterm, then typing VirtualBox in another gives 
 the error message that it can't read the "VirtualBox.xml". Well, of 
 course if doesn't exist it can't be read.
 
 So creating a minimal VirtualBox.xml in the .VirtualBox directory that 
 was created after the failed start, was what I tried and it worked. Even 
 the most minimal one such as what Bernhard Froehlich suggested (removing 
 the 2 times '3D' that I see on the bugreport via the web) works.
 
 I then added a virtual image etc. VirtualBox seems to work fine when the 
 xml file is there.
 
 
 Wouter