[Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD!

Inakrin inakrin at inakrin.ru
Fri May 15 01:38:27 UTC 2009


On Thursday 14 May 2009 23:12:37 Martin Wilke wrote:
> Howdy Guys,
>
> After the announcement from Alexander Eichner about
> Virtualbox on FreeBSD, we started the work on a port
> for FreeBSD. Now we think that we solved the most
> problems and are ready for the first Call for Testing.
>
> Some notes before you can test the port:
> Make sure you are using RELENG_7 or higher. You have
> to use a fresh portstree with uptodate ports!! Please
> read carefully the pkg-messages.
>
> Some known issues / Troubleshooting:
> Sometimes the kernel on HEAD coredumps when loading
> or unloading the kernel module. A small workaround
> to prevent the crash is to not start X, mount proc,
> then load the kernel module and start X from the
> console. That helped me and some testers, maybe you
> too. :P AMD64 should be work in general, it builds
> and start. But not right tested at the moment. We
> want here also some feedback.
>
> Some Thanks:
> First of all we'd like to say many thanks to _ALL_
> vbox developers. Next people are Bernhard Froehlich
> (aka decke), Beat Gaetzi (beat@), Dennis Herrmann
> (dhn@), Pietro Cerutti (gahr@), myself (*gg*),
> and _ALL_ who helped and provided feedback.
>
> Happy Testing :-)
>
> Download:
>
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/vbox/vboxport.tgz
>
> Wiki Page:
>  http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
>
>  - Martin

It's very nice) I'll testing it immeiately.


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