Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD

[Hideki Yamamoto]

Hi,

A happy new year!

Thank you for your porting of VirtualBox 3.1.2.
I have just tested as follows:

Host OS:
   - FreeBSD 9-current
Guest OS:
  - FreeBSD 8R, now compiling 9-current.
  - Cent OS 5.4 I386

These are very good.  But as Mr. Goto said, I could not
load kernel module for guest FreeBSD.

Best regards,
Hideki Yamamoto

2009/12/31 Henrik Hudson <lists at rhavenn.net>:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Martin Wilke wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Many thanks to the VirtualBox developers, all tester and patch submitter
>> and the whole vbox@ team.