VirtualBox 4.2.14 unusable

[Bernhard Fröhlich]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Jimmy Kelley <ljboiler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

The fix has now been committed to the port so virtualbox-ose 4.2.16_1
should work correctly
now.

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