VirtualBox pbi questions

[tanto]

Hi there,

I saw the pbi version of VB is 4.0.14, but ports version is 4.1.8.
Any reason for it?

After installing pbi VB, Adding Guest Addition is not working. Sharing folders between Host [pcbsd] and Client [win7] is required.

I did try manual sharing from windoze with <x: \\vboxsvr\sharename> but no success.

Also the <Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack for VB 4.0.16> or .14 are not working. See img attached.

Any clue?

Or should I do the whole installation from ports [virtualbox-ose & virtualbox-ose-additions] ?

here my system:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD YANG 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #3: Tue Dec 27 14:14:29 PST 2011 root@build9x64.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/builds/amd64/pcbsd-build90/fbsd-source/9.0/sys/GENERIC amd64

Thanx in advance for any hints.

greets

[Beanpole]

The PBI for version 4.1.8 just finished building and I am testing it at this very moment. Generally a PBI lags a few days behind the FreeBSD port updates since we have to build the PBI, test it, fix any issues, and repeat if necessary before it gets approved and pushed out to the AppCafe.

The PBI sets up PCBSD as the host environment for virtualbox, as opposed to the guest environment (the OS to be run inside virtualbox). The vbox-guestadditions are already setup for the host environment within the PBI, but they also need to be setup in the guest environment in order to be properly utilized. To accommodate this, we provide a pre-built virtualbox install (.vdi) of PCBSD with all the guest additions already enabled that can be downloaded from www.pcbsd.org. If you are trying to run something OTHER than PCBSD in virtualbox, you will need to find the instructions for how to enable the guest additions for that particular OS.

If you have any further issues with getting it to work, feel free to send an email to the PCBSD pbi-dev mailing list about it. There are many other people on there that are more familiar with customizing Virtualbox and can help you out much faster than I can.

[Peter2121]

Since the update of VirtualBox PBI to 4.1.8 - impossible to start any VM.
See the attachments for details.
This is really bad, guys.

Any ideas?

[emmex]

Since the update of VirtualBox PBI to 4.1.8 - impossible to start any VM.
See the attachments for details.
This is really bad, guys.

Any ideas?

I have the same problem too, also in /var/log/messages I can read:

Mar  1 10:59:45 pcbsd-3948 kernel: SUP_IOCTL_COOKIE: Version mismatch. Requested: 0x190000  Min: 0x190000  Current: 0x180000

[AnbuBlack]

Same problem here, after update from 4.0.14 to 4.1.8.
snapshot6.jpg

[Beanpole]

We have tested the 4.1.8 PBI without any problems on a number of computers here. I am thinking that there might be a problem with the patching process to upgrade the PBI from a previous version since all of our tests were with a fresh install of the PBI.
Try un-installing the PBI and then re-installing fresh from the AppCafe (not upgrade) and see if that works for you. If it does, we might need to think of an alternate way of patching kernel modules that get upgraded.

[Peter2121]

Sorry, Beanpole, and why can't you test an upgrade "on a number of computers here"?

[AnbuBlack]

A fresh installation works well, there are only problems with updating an existing package installed.

[Peter2121]

I confirm, after the reinstall it works.

[Beanpole]

Sounds good.
I will get the update patch removed for this version of the VirtualBox PBI and look into what improvements can be made with respect to updating kernel modules.