Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4

[Tim Kellers]

  On 2/19/11 2:30 AM, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung -----
>> On 02/18/11 11:58, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote:
>>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:21:52 +0100
>>> Bernhard Froehlich<decke at FreeBSD.org>    wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Testers.
>>>>
>>>> A few of you have probably wondered what happened to our VirtualBox
>>>> efforts for FreeBSD. Well it took a bit longer then expected and a
>>>> few problems were found that needed to be resolved first but most of
>>>> the things are looking fine now and almost all patches have been
>>>> pushed upstream with 4.0.4 so here we are now.
>>>>
>>>> We will continue to work on VirtualBox for FreeBSD and upstream is
>>>> also very helpful to us but we could need a few more hands to better
>>>> keep up with the work and especially improve and fix the Guest
>>>> Additions. So if you want to help please contact us or have a look at
>>>> our Todo list.
>>>>
>>>> This result wouldn't have been possible without the continuous help
>>>> of the VirtualBox Developers and a lot of people from the FreeBSD
>>>> community! (names in alphabetical order and probably missed a few,
>>>> sorry
>>>> for that!)
>>>>
>>>> - Alexander Eichner
>>>> - Anonymous
>>>> - Beat Gätzi
>>>> - Bernhard Fröhlich
>>>> - crsd
>>>> - DomiX
>>>> - Doug Barton
>>>> - Grzegorz Blach
>>>> - Hans Petter Selasky
>>>> - Julian Stacey
>>>> - Jung-uk Kim
>>>> - Jürgen Lock
>>>> - Klaus Espenlaub
>>>> - Martin Wilke
>>>> - Mattia Rossi
>>>> - Michael Butler
>>>> - Sean C. Farley
>>>> - Steve Wills
>>>> - tombsd
>>>> - Vivek Khera
>>>> - well-wisher
>>>> - Wietse Venema
>>>> - Yuri
>>>> - many more from emulation@
>>>>
>>>> Please when testing this ports backup all your virtual machines
>>>> first. Also please build the port with DEBUG option enabled and send
>>>> us the logfile when any VM crashes. Without them it's very hard to
>>>> figure out what went wrong.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Highlights with 4.0:
>>>> - USB support (by Hans Petter Selasky)
>>>> - Asynchronous I/O
>>>> - Guest additions got startscripts and a integration into the desktop
>>>> environments
>>>> - www/phpvirtualbox updated to 4.0-3
>>>>
>>>> Changelog for 4.0:
>>>> - http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>>>>
>>>> Short configuration help:
>>>> - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox
>>>>
>>>> Todo List:
>>>> - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox/ToDo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://home.bluelife.at/ports/virtualbox-cft-20110218.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and good luck,
>>>>
>> In my dmesg:
>>
>> KLD vboxdrv.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
>> linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
>> KLD vboxdrv.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
>> linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
>> KLD vboxnetflt.ko: depends on vboxdrv - not available or version mismatch
>> linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
>>
>> beta# uname -a
>> FreeBSD beta.maestro.njit.edu 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #1: Tue
>> Dec 14 18:24:33 EST 2010       
>> tkellers at beta.maestro.njit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NOVNINE   amd64
>>
>> Rebuilding world and kernel, now, just to be sure I'm following the
>> directions:   I csup /usr/src and /usr/ports hourly
> yeah that's a bad idea. The kernel sources and the kernel need to be in sync when compiling the vbox kernel module.
>
>
Synced up the sources, and all is well, so far:

Sat Feb 19 22:43:10 EST 2011
 > kldstat
Id Refs Address            Size     Name
  1   36 0xffffffff80200000 1103de8  kernel
  2    2 0xffffffff81304000 873e8    sound.ko
  3    1 0xffffffff8138c000 252b0    snd_hda.ko
  4    1 0xffffffff813b2000 6440     sem.ko
  5    3 0xffffffff813b9000 4b5e0    vboxdrv.ko
  6    1 0xffffffff81612000 40d2     linprocfs.ko
  7    1 0xffffffff81617000 1dee4    linux.ko
  8    1 0xffffffff81635000 1694     fdescfs.ko
  9    2 0xffffffff81637000 290e     vboxnetflt.ko
10    2 0xffffffff8163a000 94c4     netgraph.ko
11    1 0xffffffff81644000 1712     ng_ether.ko
12    1 0xffffffff81646000 e5c      vboxnetadp.ko
13    1 0xffffffff81647000 7e5      accf_http.ko
14    1 0xffffffff81648000 1dd      accf_data.ko


Thanks!

Tim Kellers