[Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.3.2: does not start

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, November 28, 2013 a las 02:22:01PM +0600, ?????? ???? escribió:

> > 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'
> Thats always used. It is a requirements.

Well, I have to admit that I overlooked the pkg_add messages (because
they scrolled out of the screen after compiling the port). And, what
about checking the gid on startup and write a stderr message about that
fact? Anyway: lession learned, PEBKAC fault :-)

> 
> > - one must 'unset QT_PLUGIN_PATH' (at least in KDE4 environment)
> I have headless machine, so have not nor kde, nor qt.
> 
> >   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>
> >
> Done, this not helps for me.
> 
> >   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;
> I have that useless log file too.
> 
> >
> > 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;
> I'm check my kernel config, it has that option. Also I'm tryin to enable all COMPAT_FREEBSD{4,5,6...}, also not helps.

This kernel option exists only for non-x86 architectures.

Meanwhile the maintainer said: not ready for use/test on 10.x and I will
wait for better times.

	matthias

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