[Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.4

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Fr.,   2. Nov. 2012 10:29:55 CET, Bâkır EMRE <bakir.emre at tubitak.gov.tr> wrote:

> > On 2012-10-30 04:16, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> > > Hi virtualbox users!
> > > 
> > > This is again a call for testers to get some feedback before we
> > > commit VirtualBox 4.2 to the portstree. If you already run
> > > VirtualBox 4.2.0 you should definitely update to 4.2.4 because they
> > > fixed quite a few serious bugs upstream.
> > > 
> > > Our plan is still to commit 4.2 to the portstree as soon as FreeBSD
> > > 9.1 is out the door.
> > > 
> > > If you are interested in helping with virtualbox maintenance and
> > > development or have noticed a bug you can easily find us on IRC.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Please update devel/kBuild-devel before updating any of the
> > > virtualbox ports and ensure that your Kernel sources match your
> > > running kernel before building the virtualbox-ose-kmod port.
> > > 
> > > Changes since VirtualBox 4.1:
> > > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
> > > 
> > > VirtualBox 4.2.4 and 4.1.22 (legacy) Ports:
> > > 
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~decke/virtualbox/virtualbox-cft-4.2.4-20121030.tar.gz 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > IRC: #freebsd-vbox on Freenode
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Bernhard on behalf of the new VirtualBox on FreeBSD Team! 
> virtualbox 4.2.4 still working with my previous VMs, butVBoxHeadless 
> doesn't support VNC in 4.2.4.
> 
> libvncserver installed
> 
> [root at VBOX ~]pkg_info |grep vnc
> libvncserver-0.9.9_2 Provide an easy API to write one's own vnc server
> 
> anxd my config parameters are same in 4.2.4 and 4.1.22 versions
> 
> [root at VBOX /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose]# make
> ===>   License GPLv2 accepted by the user
> ===>   Found saved configuration for virtualbox-ose-4.2.4
> ===>   Extracting for virtualbox-ose-4.2.4
> => SHA256 Checksum OK for VirtualBox-4.2.4.tar.bz2.
> ===>   Patching for virtualbox-ose-4.2.4
> ===>   Applying FreeBSD patches for virtualbox-ose-4.2.4
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: yasm - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: as86 - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: xsltproc - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: kmk - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: gtar - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: soapcpp2 - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on file: 
> /usr/local/bin/easy_install-2.7 - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python2.7 - 
> found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: pkgconf - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: cdrecord - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: png15 - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: xslt.2 - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: curl.6 - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: dbus-1.3 - found
> ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: vncserver.0 -
> found ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: glib-2.0.0
> - found ===>     virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: IDL-2.0 -
> found
> 
> After building virtualbox-ose-4.2.4, VBoxHeadless doesn't offer vnc
> support
> 
> [root at VBOX ~]# VBoxHeadless
> Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.2.4_OSE
> (C) 2008-2012 Oracle Corporation
> All rights reserved.
> 
> Usage:
>         -s, -startvm, --startvm <name|uuid>     Start given VM (required
> argument)       -v, -vrde, --vrde on|off|config             Enable (default) or
> disable   the VRDE
> ...
> 
> 
> But old version have vnc support with same compile options
> 
> [root at VBOX ~]# VBoxHeadless
> Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.1.22_OSE
> (C) 2008-2012 Oracle Corporation
> All rights reserved.
> 
> Usage:
>         -s, -startvm, --startvm <name|uuid>     Start given VM (required
> argument)       -n, --vnc                                                         Enable the built in
> VNC server       -m, --vncport <port>                                   TCP port number to
> use for the   VNC server
>         -o, --vncpass <pw>                                       Set the VNC server password
>         -v, -vrde, --vrde on|off|config             Enable (default) or disable 
> the VRDE

vnc support has been changed and is a proper vbox plugin now. It uses the VRDE interface which is also used by the binary VRDP plugin and now also shares the same configuration.

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