[Bug 221050] emulators/virtualbox-ose: Bridged network doesn't work (11.1-RELEASE)

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--- Comment #8 from steinex at nognu.de ---
Ok, I can confirm that bridged networking  works again when virtualbox-ose is
build from source  when it's complete dependency chain is also built from
ports.

It makes sense to me that virtualbox needs to be compiled against the new
kernel after upgrading, I didn't spot the gcc5 issue, thanks for that.

However, I'm not the original bug submitter and I can relate to the confusion
as of why a package stops working after upgrade to a new minor-release. I see a
chicken-and-egg problem between quarterlies (and most probably even latest)
packages that provide out-of-tree modules and a new -RELEASE.

I have no stake in here what to do, having a virtualbox-ose package sure is
nice, but having none at all may be less confusing.


tl;dr: bridged networking in virtualbox from ports (2017Q3) with 11.1 is
totally fine, if you compile virtualbox with it's complete dependency chain
from ports and not use packages.

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