Re: Query about Virtualbox version.
On Wed, 15/7/15, Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: Subject: Re: Query about Virtualbox version. To: muhammedzubair sharief mzs...@yahoo.co.in Cc: v...@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, 15 July, 2015, 6:06 PM On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:33:52PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: Dear Maintainer, I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. [..] pkg upgrade Installed packages to be UPGRADED: virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 - 4.3.30 virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 - 4.3.30 The process will require 14 KiB more space. 32 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: [..] However there was no stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was recently released? Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on FreeBSD! https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3 Quote: VirtualBox 4.3.30 (released July 10th 2015) Regards, Gary Thanks, the last time I checked(on 9th July) it was not there which was during version 5 release, I am afraid that moving to version 5.0 might break the Virtualbox VM installations on 4.3.x. Will version 5 replace 4.3.x or that be maintained separately? ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Query about Virtualbox version.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 06:36:36PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: On Wed, 15/7/15, Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: Subject: Re: Query about Virtualbox version. To: muhammedzubair sharief mzs...@yahoo.co.in Cc: v...@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, 15 July, 2015, 6:06 PM On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:33:52PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: Dear Maintainer, I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. [..] pkg upgrade Installed packages to be UPGRADED: ??? virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 - 4.3.30 ??? virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 - 4.3.30 The process will require 14 KiB more space. 32 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: [..] However there was no stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was recently released? Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on FreeBSD! https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3 Quote:? VirtualBox 4.3.30 (released July 10th 2015) Regards, Gary Thanks, the last time I checked(on 9th July) it was not there which was during version 5 release, I am afraid that moving to version 5.0 might break the Virtualbox VM installations on 4.3.x. Will version 5 replace 4.3.x or that be maintained separately? I can't speak for the FreeBSD VBox maintainers, but in general FreeBSD ports try to put major versions into a new port (e.g. emulators/virtualbox-ose5 or similar) so that people are not forced to upgrade and possibly break working configurations, and allow a transition period. I would expect that unless by some miracle the kernel module works for both VBox 4.3.x and 5.0.x, you may not be able to have both versions installed on the same system at the same time. Regards, Gary ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Query about Virtualbox version.
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:50:14 +0100 Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 06:36:36PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: On Wed, 15/7/15, Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: Subject: Re: Query about Virtualbox version. To: muhammedzubair sharief mzs...@yahoo.co.in Cc: v...@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, 15 July, 2015, 6:06 PM On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:33:52PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: Dear Maintainer, I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. [..] pkg upgrade Installed packages to be UPGRADED: ??? virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 - 4.3.30 ??? virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 - 4.3.30 The process will require 14 KiB more space. 32 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: [..] However there was no stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was recently released? Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on FreeBSD! https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3 Quote:? VirtualBox 4.3.30 (released July 10th 2015) Regards, Gary Thanks, the last time I checked(on 9th July) it was not there which was during version 5 release, I am afraid that moving to version 5.0 might break the Virtualbox VM installations on 4.3.x. Will version 5 replace 4.3.x or that be maintained separately? I can't speak for the FreeBSD VBox maintainers, but in general FreeBSD ports try to put major versions into a new port (e.g. emulators/virtualbox-ose5 or similar) so that people are not forced to upgrade and possibly break working configurations, and allow a transition period. I would expect that unless by some miracle the kernel module works for both VBox 4.3.x and 5.0.x, you may not be able to have both versions installed on the same system at the same time. Regards, Gary Forgive my lameness but for the VM itself should make no difference, right? Except noticing possible improvements on responsiveness, speed, etc... Well, maybe there could incompatibilities if the VM has guestadditions 4.3.28/30 installed and is running on a 5.0 environment, although I believe this shouldn't happen. Other than the above, the only thing that comes to mind is if the .vdi disk layout has changed so much that would make HD images produced in one version incompatible with the other. I hardly doubt that. So, assuming VBox 5.0 is stable and bug-free, what would be the reason to keep both 4.3.28/30 and 5.0 installed? -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Query about Virtualbox version.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:36:46PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:50:14 +0100 Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 06:36:36PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: On Wed, 15/7/15, Gary Palmer gpal...@freebsd.org wrote: Subject: Re: Query about Virtualbox version. To: muhammedzubair sharief mzs...@yahoo.co.in Cc: v...@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, 15 July, 2015, 6:06 PM On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:33:52PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: Dear Maintainer, I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. [..] pkg upgrade Installed packages to be UPGRADED: ??? virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 - 4.3.30 ??? virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 - 4.3.30 The process will require 14 KiB more space. 32 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: [..] However there was no stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was recently released? Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on FreeBSD! https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3 Quote:? VirtualBox 4.3.30 (released July 10th 2015) Regards, Gary Thanks, the last time I checked(on 9th July) it was not there which was during version 5 release, I am afraid that moving to version 5.0 might break the Virtualbox VM installations on 4.3.x. Will version 5 replace 4.3.x or that be maintained separately? I can't speak for the FreeBSD VBox maintainers, but in general FreeBSD ports try to put major versions into a new port (e.g. emulators/virtualbox-ose5 or similar) so that people are not forced to upgrade and possibly break working configurations, and allow a transition period. I would expect that unless by some miracle the kernel module works for both VBox 4.3.x and 5.0.x, you may not be able to have both versions installed on the same system at the same time. Regards, Gary Forgive my lameness but for the VM itself should make no difference, right? Except noticing possible improvements on responsiveness, speed, etc... Well, maybe there could incompatibilities if the VM has guestadditions 4.3.28/30 installed and is running on a 5.0 environment, although I believe this shouldn't happen. Other than the above, the only thing that comes to mind is if the .vdi disk layout has changed so much that would make HD images produced in one version incompatible with the other. I hardly doubt that. So, assuming VBox 5.0 is stable and bug-free, what would be the reason to keep both 4.3.28/30 and 5.0 installed? Your assumption states the issue exactly. Most dot zero software is not bug free. Regards, Gary ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Query about Virtualbox version.
Dear Maintainer, I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. [..] pkg upgrade Installed packages to be UPGRADED: virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 - 4.3.30 virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 - 4.3.30 The process will require 14 KiB more space. 32 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: [..] However there was no stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was recently released? Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on FreeBSD! Regards, Zubair ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Query about Virtualbox version.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:33:52PM +0800, muhammedzubair sharief wrote: Dear Maintainer, I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. [..] pkg upgrade Installed packages to be UPGRADED: virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 - 4.3.30 virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 - 4.3.30 The process will require 14 KiB more space. 32 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: [..] However there was no stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was recently released? Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on FreeBSD! https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_4_3 Quote: VirtualBox 4.3.30 (released July 10th 2015) Regards, Gary ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Query about Virtualbox version.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:33 PM, muhammedzubair sharief mzs...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Dear Maintainer, I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. [..] pkg upgrade Installed packages to be UPGRADED: virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 - 4.3.30 virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 - 4.3.30 The process will require 14 KiB more space. 32 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: [..] However there was no stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was recently released? Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on FreeBSD! Regards, Zubair It is 4.3.30 - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-4.3 -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/ ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Query about Virtualbox version.
2015-07-15 9:07 GMT-03:00 Bernhard Fröhlich de...@bluelife.at: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:33 PM, muhammedzubair sharief mzs...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Dear Maintainer, I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. [..] pkg upgrade Installed packages to be UPGRADED: virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 - 4.3.30 virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 - 4.3.30 The process will require 14 KiB more space. 32 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: [..] However there was no stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was recently released? Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on FreeBSD! Regards, Zubair It is 4.3.30 - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-4.3 -- Bernhard Fröhlich How about VBox 5.0? Is there a time frame of when will it reach the ports/pkg? Thanks, -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Query about Virtualbox version.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: 2015-07-15 9:07 GMT-03:00 Bernhard Fröhlich de...@bluelife.at: On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:33 PM, muhammedzubair sharief mzs...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Dear Maintainer, I am using Virtualbox 4.3.28 on FreeBSD 10.1, during recent pkg upgrade it showed version 4.3.30. [..] pkg upgrade Installed packages to be UPGRADED: virtualbox-ose-kmod: 4.3.28 - 4.3.30 virtualbox-ose: 4.3.28_1 - 4.3.30 The process will require 14 KiB more space. 32 MiB to be downloaded. Proceed with this action? [y/N]: [..] However there was no stable release of 4.3.30. Is this version 5 which was recently released? Thanks for maintaining Virtualbox on FreeBSD! Regards, Zubair It is 4.3.30 - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-4.3 -- Bernhard Fröhlich How about VBox 5.0? Is there a time frame of when will it reach the ports/pkg? I'm actually not involved in vbox work for some time now but I've seen that jkim has some patch around for 5.0 but it required some more work I think. -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/ ___ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
