VirtualBox 4.2.14 unusable

[Jimmy Kelley]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 01:34:59PM +0200, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Jimmy Kelley <ljboiler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:14:44PM +0400, Mikhail Tsatsenko wrote:
> >> 2013/7/8 Jimmy Kelley <ljboiler at gmail.com>:
> >> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:40:16PM -0300, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
> >> >> Yes it is broken,
> >> >>
> >> >> the logic that finds how much real memory is there in the FreeBSD
> >> >> is broken, reports ZERO..
> >> >>
> >> >> There is a Problem Report and a person that
> >> >> says will fix it, 2 weeks ago...
> >> >>
> >> >> I am using the last version 4.2.12 that works
> >> >>
> >> >> I am still waiting for the fix...
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Sergio
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I did a search on the Freebsd PRs (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi) and
> >> > cannot find anything that seems to reference this problem.  Would you know the PR number?
> >> > Or was this just some discussion on the mailing list?
> >> >
> >> > I'll file an offical PR if there isn't one.
> >> >
> >> > Jimmy
> >> There is no PR for this problem.
> >> As far as I understand memory calculation is still broken on CURRENT.
> >> And I suspect it is a build-time  not runtime bug.
> >> Can anybody who is facing the problem send me a full build log of the
> >> virtualbox-ose port from affected machine for investigation please.
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mikhail
> >
> > Attached is my build log; I'm running 10-CURRENT i386.  I see the patch files commited for this
> > problem with VBox 4.2.14 (PR #180086) on my machine, but I have upgraded my ports tree since
> > and have the newer 4.2.16 version that I'm building.
> 
> Please try the patch from that mail and see if it helps. From the
> reports it looks reasonable to say
> that the currently committed patch works only on amd64. So far the
> reports where it doesn't work
> are all on i386 and this matches with the description of the fix in the mail.
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-all/2013-July/024215.html
> 
> --
> Bernhard Froehlich
> http://www.bluelife.at/

Thanks for point out that old message.  I applied that updated patch and it works now.
The code is incorrectly assuming a 64-bit size for querying the hw.physmem sysctl on
a 32-bit system.

Jimmy