[Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.3.2: does not start
Matthias Apitz
guru at unixarea.de
Wed Nov 27 12:09:05 UTC 2013
El día Wednesday, November 27, 2013 a las 07:51:41AM +0100, Matthias Apitz escribió:
> The command;
>
> # sudo -u guru VirtualBox
>
> let show up and error dialog box with the message
>
> Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object
>
> The application will now terminate.
>
> Details:
> Callee RC: NS_ERROR_ABORT (0x80004004)
It seems to be a bit tricky to get that beast up and running:
Here is what I got to know so far:
- one must be in the group 'vboxusers'
- one must 'unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH' (at least in KDE4 environment)
this will solve the SEGFAULT crash;
- one must create by hand(!) a dir ~/.VirtualBox and there a file:
$ cat .VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
<VirtualBox xmlns="http://www.innotek.de/VirtualBox-settings"
version="1.12-freebsd">
</VirtualBox>
after this there is a least a log about the booting:
$ cat .VirtualBox/VBoxSVC.log
VirtualBox XPCOM Server 4.3.2_OSE r90405 freebsd.x86 (Nov 20 2013 14:00:44) release log
00:00:00.005135 main Log opened 2013-11-27T10:55:17.598220000Z
00:00:00.005137 main Build Type: release
00:00:00.005139 main OS Product: FreeBSD
00:00:00.005141 main OS Release: 10.0-ALPHA4
00:00:00.005143 main OS Version: FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 #1: Fri Oct 18 12:10:57 CEST 2013 guru at aurora.Sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
00:00:00.005145 main Host RAM: 2027MB total, 1864MB available
00:00:00.005147 main Executable: /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC
00:00:00.005149 main Process ID: 9104
00:00:00.005151 main Package type: BSD_32BITS_GENERIC (OSE)
but even with this you will get the above error message when yoyu start
as normal user VirtualBox;
it seems (Google) that the 10.x kernel need a special option:
option COMPAT_FREEBSD32
(see: http://www.freebsdonline.com/content/view/888/528/ for example);
I have not yet tested it, due to lack of time installing a new kernel;
maybe the maintainer could spend a few words if this is required, or
what else is missing to bring this up in 10.x; thx
matthias
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