Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD

[Olivier Smedts]

Le 28 déc. 2009 à 00:24, Martin Wilke <miwi at FreeBSD.org> a écrit :

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> Howdy,
>
> Changelog from VirtualBox is available here:
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>
> Changes in the port:
>  - VirtualBox and the guest additions have been updated to 3.1.2.
>  - Port has been renamed to virtualbox-ose to reflect that we are
>    using the OSE version. Requested by: mm@
>  - A seperate port for the kernel modules has been created:  
> virtualbox-ose-kmod
>  - A seperate port for guest additions for FreeBSD guests has been
>    created: virtualbox-ose-additions
>  - Added proper PulseAudio support for FreeBSD. Contributed by  
> Noriyoshi Kawano
>  - procfs is no longer required because vbox uses sysctl(3) now.  
> Contributed by
>    Baptiste Daroussin and Bernhard Froehlich
>  - Fix build with a non-standard location for the system source.  
> Submitted
>    by: scf@
>
> How to upgrade:
>  - Fetch the new ports:
>    # fetch https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz
>    # tar xf virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz
>
>  - Build the new ports:
>    # cd virtualbox-ose-kmod && make
>    # cd ../virtualbox-ose && make
>
>  - If build was ok, deinstall old port
>    # pkg_deinstall virtualbox-\*
>
>  - Install new port:
>    # cd ../virtualbox-ose-kmod && make install clean
>    # cd ../virtualbox-ose && make install clean
>
> For FreeBSD guests within VirtualBox please try the new guest  
> additions port:
>    # fetch https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz
>    # tar xf virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz
>    # cd virtualbox-ose-additions && make install clean
>    # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vboxguest.sh start
>
> Check that the VirtualBox kernel module is loaded via loader.conf
> and reboot the machine.
>
> Check the wiki page for known problems: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
>
> Please report any functionality which was working with previous  
> versions of
> VirtualBox and no longer working with 3.1.2 or any build failure.

Only a success report for me. It works great on my 8-STABLE amd64 box  
with a Windows 2008 R2 64 guest on raw hard drive and a Haiku guest  
(VT on).

Many thanks !

>
> Many thanks to the VirtualBox developers, all tester and patch  
> submitter
> and the whole vbox@ team.
>
>
> Happy Testing!
>
> - - Martin on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team
>
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