[Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.4

[Brandon Gooch]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Bernhard Fröhlich <decke at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Brandon Gooch
> <jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Bernhard Fröhlich <decke at freebsd.org> 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!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bernhard Froehlich
>>> http://www.bluelife.at/
>>
>> I've updated to 4.2.4 on my system running HEAD. I've hit one annoying issue.
>>
>> I've been running the 4.2.0 Call for Testing for a while now, and it
>> worked very well.
>>
>> After updating to 4.2.4 and updating the guest additions on several
>> Linux guests, I've found that 3D acceleration is broken. The guest on
>> which I didn't update the guest additions (so it's still running
>> version 4.2.0 guest additions),  3D acceleration works great.
>>
>> This is a nuisance on systems which had some form of compositing
>> enabled (e.g. compiz) because the login process (GDM in this case)
>> just spins indefinitely waiting on (I presume) the window manager to
>> fire up.
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this?
>
> Hm haven't checked that recently. The only thing that changed between 4.2.0
> and 4.2.2 from FreeBSD side was that we have enabled DRM in the additions
> for FreeBSD guests but that should not affect Linux guests at all.
>
> I will check if I can reproduce that.
>
> --
> Bernhard Froehlich
> http://www.bluelife.at/

I downgraded the guest additions from 4.2.4 to 4.2.0 and functionality
is restored. This seems to be an issue with other host environments as
well. Here's an example:

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=52215

-Brandon