Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 (PBIs now available)

[Bernhard Froehlich]

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.

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