Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 (PBIs now available)

[Kris Moore]

On 04/26/2011 16:18, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> 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.
>

This bug has been fixed now for the 8.x / amd64 version of VirtualBox 
4.0.6 PBI:

ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/pbioutgoing/x64/8/emulators/virtualbox-ose/virtualbox-4.0.6-amd64.pbi

The 32bit version is still in the queue for rebuilding, but should be 
done in the next 24 hours or so.


-- 
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
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