[Bug 234878] emulators/virtualbox-ose: Update to 6.0

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Mikhail Teterin <mi at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #35 from Mikhail Teterin <mi at FreeBSD.org> ---
I too would like the VirtualBox ports upgraded (the current latest from
upstream is 6.0.10) -- at least, the ose-guest-additions, because that's all I
use.

The one point, that all of the virtualbox ports have omitted so far is adding
-DPAE to the compiler command lines building kernel modules. I'm trying to deal
with this myself currently with things like this:

.if ${.CURDIR:M*/ports/*virtualbox-ose*}
CFLAGS+=        -DPAE
COPTFLAGS+=     -DPAE
CXXFLAGS+=      -DPAE
.endif

but I'm never certain, if they have the proper effect every time or if my
vboxguest.ko is subtly miscompiled :(

This may be less important to the server port, as VM-hosting servers these days
tend to be 64bit anyway, but it is perfectly normal for a guest VM to be 32-bit
-- using PAE to have more than 4GB of total memory, while limiting each process
to 4GB.

I'm not sure, if PAE should be a "flavor" or an option... Given that it only
affects kernel-modules (both for the host- and the guest- ports), maybe, the
vboxguest.ko needs a port of its own (like the already-existing
virtualbox-ose-kmod).

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