Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6

[Rusty Nejdl]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:54:13 +0200, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> On Fr., 22. Apr. 2011 17:46:46 CEST, Rusty Nejdl
> <rnejdl at ringofsaturn.com> wrote:
>
>> Some feedback on what I've seen so far:
>>
>> 1) After upgraded from 4.0.4 to 4.0.6, I was unable to start any of 
>> my
>> VM's until I kldunload'd and kldload'd the updated kernel modules.
>
> I forgot to mention that this is required after all vbox updates.
> Also please reboot and don't kldunload/kldload the modules because it
> can cause a kernel panic.

I actually haven't had to do this before.  Only sometimes when my 
kernel diverges from src too far.  But, no panic and it worked just 
fine.

>
>> 2) I am still unable to get a windows experience score in windows 7
>> using the latest guest additions.   It fails in the 3D section.   
>> The OS
>> is still usable.
>
> Does this work on linux hosts? They are currently working on a wddm
> driver for windows. That could probably help.

As far as I can tell, this works just fine for linux hosts.  I wasn't 
sure where things were at for Windows 7 so I gave it a shot.

>
>> 3) The unity desktop is working in Ubuntu 11.
>> 4) Fedora is looking good.
>> 5) Windows XP still works the same.
>>
>> I was able to run 4 VM's at once without any issue on FreeBSD 8.2
>> 64bit.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Rusty Nejdl
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