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Old 5th June 2011
sharris sharris is offline
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http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22659

wblock wrote:
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VirtualBox uses kernel modules which should match the kernel version. So after you upgrade to 8.2, rebuild and reinstall emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod.
OK, so virtualbox-ose-kmod are only drivers: vboxdrv dish out the RAM and CPU for each guest. vboxnet are drivers for networking.

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Don't know if emulators/virtualbox-ose also requires a rebuild, but it wouldn't hurt.
virtualbox-ose, thanks for the clue. So this must be the actual program. My bad ... I should have guested it by size.

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... the Guest Additions are designed to be installed inside a virtual machine after the guest operating system has been installed.
I never would have guest this one, "inside-out install". But I still not found no info about virtualbox-3.2.12-amd64.tbz

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/

Vbox for FreeBSD was a hopeless dream just yesterday, (a few years ago). That's why I ask first.

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9818

The things you learn all in a day is like crazy. how could anyone have a real clue unless he set up a lab for it (one out of a thousand fields in computing).

btw: trying to make it work with no help is not worth the effort. I'll spare you the details but I for one know the real reason why the Gnome Team drop support for Gnome-2, COMPLETELY. It's not all about the finger-tab-top. It was pure bad planning and programming practice. Now they bailing out on the open-source community for GNOME-2 (multi-windows support) after all of these years of dedication.. Geez!


Order of install:
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virtualbox-ose-4.0.8.tbz ...............................23 dependencies
virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.0.8.tbz ........................0 dependencies
virtualbox-ose-additions-4.0.8.tbz ...................1 dependency

Funny thing is that any version of virtualbox-ose needs perl-5-12.3 and python27 but it can't replace perl-5.10.1_3 an python26 which is needed to run GNOME-2

Last edited by sharris; 5th June 2011 at 10:33 AM.
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