Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD

Wed Dec 30 10:02:02 UTC 2009

On Wed, December 30, 2009 2:54 am, Daichi GOTO wrote:
> Thank you for great porting, congratulation VirtualBox 3.1.2!
>
> I have been trying to use VirtualBox 3.1.2 in these 3 days.
> Except a matter, that works well rather than 3.0.51.
>
>    Host OS:
>      FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT (r201018: Mon Dec 28 21:40:51 JST 2009)
>      virtualbox-ose-3.1.2
>      virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.1.2
>        (all guest os: bridged networking)
>
>    Geust OS checked:
>      FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 i386/amd64
>      Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop (32bit/64bit)
>      Windows XP PS3
>
>    Good point:
>      - now multicore attached guest OS works stably!

Thats good news :o)

>    Degraded point:
>      - NVIDIA Driver issue gets more sensitive. Despite powerd(8)
>        working or not, VirtualBox 3.1.2 and NVIDIA Driver leads
>        system freeze easily. nv driver saves you even in this
>        situation.
>
> What's the matter I don't know, vboxguest.ko doesn't work on both
> FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 i386 guest and amd64 guest.
>
>    (on 8.0R-p1 i386 guest)
>    # kldload /boot/modules/vboxguest.ko
>    link_elf: symbol _Z6strlenPKc undefined
>    kldload: can't load /boot/modules/vboxguest.ko: No such file or
> directory
>    #
>    # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vboxguest.sh start
>    VirtualBox kernel modle (vboxguest) not installed.
>    #
>
>    (on 8.0R-p1 amd64 guest)
>    # kldload /boot/modules/vboxguest.ko
>    kldload: can't load /boot/modules/vboxguest.ko: Exec format error
>    #
>    # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vboxguest.sh start
>    VirtualBox kernel modle (vboxguest) not installed.
>    #

Thanks, we are already aware of it and will fix it before the next CFT.
The way the vboxguest.ko module is build is wrong or "not correct anymore"
and we have already talked to the vbox developers to properly solve that
problem.

> I have installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 and installed
> emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions. Installed software list
> by virtualbox-ose-additions as follow:
>
> autoconf-2.62
> autoconf-wrapper-20071109
> automake-1.10.1
> automake-1.9.6_3
> automake-wrapper-20071109
> bigreqsproto-1.0.2
> dev86-0.16.17
> fixesproto-4.0
> gettext-0.17_1
> gmake-3.81_3
> help2man-1.36.4_3
> inputproto-1.5.0
> kBuild-0.1.5.p2
> kbproto-1.0.3
> libICE-1.0.4_1,1
> libSM-1.1.0_1,1
> libX11-1.2.1_1,1
> libXau-1.0.4
> libXcursor-1.1.9_1
> libXdmcp-1.0.2_1
> libXext-1.0.5,1
> libXfixes-4.0.3_1
> libXmu-1.0.4,1
> libXrender-0.9.4_1
> libXt-1.0.5_1
> libcheck-0.9.8
> libgcrypt-1.4.4
> libgpg-error-1.7
> libiconv-1.13.1
> libpthread-stubs-0.3_3
> libtool-2.2.6b
> libxcb-1.5
> libxml2-2.7.6_1
> libxslt-1.1.26
> m4-1.4.13,1
> p5-gettext-1.05_2
> perl-5.8.9_3
> pkg-config-0.23_1
> python26-2.6.4
> renderproto-0.9.3
> virtualbox-ose-additions-3.1.2
> xcb-proto-1.6
> xcmiscproto-1.1.2
> xextproto-7.0.5
> xf86bigfontproto-1.1.2
> xorg-macros-1.2.1
> xproto-7.0.15
> xtrans-1.2.3
> yasm-0.8.0
>
> Is there some points I missed?
>
> On 2009/12/28 08:24, Martin Wilke wrote:
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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.
>>
>> 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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