Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.4

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:09:05 +0200, 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,
>> Bernhard, on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team
>>
> CONFLICTS missing for -kmod:
> 
> laptop# pkg_info -xI virt
> virtualbox-ose-4.0.4 A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
> virtualbox-ose-additions-4.0.4 VirtualBox additions for FreeBSD guests
> virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.12_1 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD
> virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.4 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD

Thanks. Fixed in the repository in r1222

http://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports/revision/?rev=1222

-- 
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/