On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:21:52 +0100 Bernhard Froehlich <de...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Testers. > > A few of you have probably wondered what happened to our VirtualBox > efforts for FreeBSD. Well it took a bit longer then expected and a few > problems were found that needed to be resolved first but most of the > things are looking fine now and almost all patches have been pushed > upstream with 4.0.4 so here we are now. > > We will continue to work on VirtualBox for FreeBSD and upstream is > also very helpful to us but we could need a few more hands to better > keep up with the work and especially improve and fix the Guest > Additions. So if you want to help please contact us or have a look at > our Todo list. > > This result wouldn't have been possible without the continuous help of > the VirtualBox Developers and a lot of people from the FreeBSD > community! (names in alphabetical order and probably missed a few, > sorry > for that!) > > - Alexander Eichner > - Anonymous > - Beat Gätzi > - Bernhard Fröhlich > - crsd > - DomiX > - Doug Barton > - Grzegorz Blach > - Hans Petter Selasky > - Julian Stacey > - Jung-uk Kim > - Jürgen Lock > - Klaus Espenlaub > - Martin Wilke > - Mattia Rossi > - Michael Butler > - Sean C. Farley > - Steve Wills > - tombsd > - Vivek Khera > - well-wisher > - Wietse Venema > - Yuri > - many more from emulation@ > > Please when testing this ports backup all your virtual machines first. > Also please build the port with DEBUG option enabled and send us the > logfile when any VM crashes. Without them it's very hard to figure out > what went wrong. > > > Highlights with 4.0: > - USB support (by Hans Petter Selasky) > - Asynchronous I/O > - Guest additions got startscripts and a integration into the desktop > environments > - www/phpvirtualbox updated to 4.0-3 > > Changelog for 4.0: > - http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog > > Short configuration help: > - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox > > Todo List: > - http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox/ToDo > > > http://home.bluelife.at/ports/virtualbox-cft-20110218.tar.gz > > > Thanks and good luck, > Bernhard, on behalf of the FreeBSD Vbox Team > CONFLICTS missing for -kmod: laptop# pkg_info -xI virt virtualbox-ose-4.0.4 A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware virtualbox-ose-additions-4.0.4 VirtualBox additions for FreeBSD guests virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.12_1 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.4 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD laptop# pkg_info -xL virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.12_1 Information for virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.12_1: Files: /usr/local/share/licenses/virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.12_1/catalog.mk /usr/local/share/licenses/virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.12_1/LICENSE /usr/local/share/licenses/virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.2.12_1/GPLv2 //boot/modules/vboxdrv.ko //boot/modules/vboxnetadp.ko //boot/modules/vboxnetflt.ko /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vboxnet laptop# pkg_info -xL virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.4 Information for virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.4: Files: /usr/local/share/licenses/virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.4/catalog.mk /usr/local/share/licenses/virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.4/LICENSE /usr/local/share/licenses/virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.4/GPLv2 //boot/modules/vboxdrv.ko //boot/modules/vboxnetadp.ko //boot/modules/vboxnetflt.ko /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vboxnet -- wbr, tiger _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
