On 2018-12-23 06:13, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 3:58 PM Per Hedeland <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 2018-12-22 19:19, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Can anyone confirm running VirtualBox on head after 11.0-Release? Apparently you meant to ask "after 12.0-RELEASE", though I'm not sure about the "after" - anyway *on* 12.0-RELEASE, I'm running virtualbox-ose-5.2.18_1 (from package) with virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.22_1 (from port) without problems. Pretty light usage though, a single VM running Linux, started "directly" with "VirtualBox --startvm xxx" and only access via ssh. Starting the "manager application" i.e. plain "VirtualBox", works fine too, though. But, I'm not loading any vboxnet* modules (seems to be more than one these days), only vboxdrv - and that via kld_list in rc.conf, i.e. I have no vbox* variables set there. After fighting with the networking setup (in more complex cases, that I don't currently use) with first vmware and then qemu I decided to do as little as possible of that with VirtualBox itself - only bridge to a tapN device, and do the rest ("actual" bridging/routing) with the standard FreeBSD functionality. --Per HedelandNo, I actually meant "be4fore", but I guess it depends on your point of view.. The issue was first reported on RC2, and I have now tested to before the branch of 12 from head. I am about to test on head from August. It has worked on 11.2 all the way through Dec. 17, so it is something that changed some time ago. Your experience tells me that, as I had suspected, that the issue is with the network module which you do not use. So I am just hoping that someone who was testing head and used VirtualBox with networking.
Well, I do use "VirtualBox with networking" - as I wrote, bridged to a tapN device, which doesn't require the vboxnet* modules. (I then, with a bit of overkill for this setup, have created a standard FreeBSD "bridge" interface to which I "addm" both the tapN (via a devd action) and my physical ethernet interface.) I am not aware of any functionality that the "builtin" VirtualBox networking provides that I can't achieve without it. But of course if you are specifically interested in using it, I don't have any relevant info. --Per
Thanks for the report. It certainly help a bit. Now to boot the August 2018 kernel and see what happens. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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