Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
--On Thursday, March 04, 2010 13:15:02 -0600 Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of issues with qt4 stuff. After rebuilding all my ports (portupgrade -af) and fixing the problems encountered, VirtualBox is working perfectly. I am now running 64 bit Windows 7 in VirtualBox on my 8 STABLE workstation. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
--On Thursday, March 04, 2010 17:12:26 -0500 Kevin Wilcox wrote: On 4 March 2010 14:15, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of issues with qt4 stuff. This doesn't exactly inspire confidence when it comes time for me to do my next round of updates. I remember running into an issue with qt when building Virtualbox but I *believe* a forced removal of everything qt related and letting it start the process from scratch fixed the issue. I'll keep better notes next time :-\ I'm running portupgrade now. (It's been a while.) If that doesn't fix it, I'll try to forced deletion of everything qt and see if that fixes it. -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of issues with qt4 stuff. VirtualBox builds fine here, but on a recent 8-stable it locks the system when starting a FreeBSD VM. Maybe on all VMs, but fscks are no fun so I haven't tried. There's a probably-related thread in -emulation. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
On 4 March 2010 14:15, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of > issues with qt4 stuff. This doesn't exactly inspire confidence when it comes time for me to do my next round of updates. I remember running into an issue with qt when building Virtualbox but I *believe* a forced removal of everything qt related and letting it start the process from scratch fixed the issue. I'll keep better notes next time :-\ kmw -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of issues with qt4 stuff. --On Wednesday, March 03, 2010 20:50:32 -0500 Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: > Hello Guys and Gals, > Can you clear something up for me. > Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on > Freebsd8. Glen Barber posted this... http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. It is a (horribly outdated) pkg_add(1) installer. I haven't had a chance to update it yet; hopefully this weekend now that my attention has been drawn to it. For the record, it is not the closed-source version. It is emulators/virtualbox before it was repocopied to emulators/virtualbox-ose-*. Regards, -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. *** "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
Hi, Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: > > > Hello Guys and Gals, > > Can you clear something up for me. > > Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on > > Freebsd8. > > Glen Barber posted this... > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html > > ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. > It is a (horribly outdated) pkg_add(1) installer. I haven't had a chance to update it yet; hopefully this weekend now that my attention has been drawn to it. For the record, it is not the closed-source version. It is emulators/virtualbox before it was repocopied to emulators/virtualbox-ose-*. Regards, -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:48:08 -0500 (EST) Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: > > > Hello Guys and Gals, > > Can you clear something up for me. > > Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox > > on Freebsd8. > > Glen Barber posted this... > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html > > ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. > > -- > Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > But is that the PUEL version? Or just a binary of the OSE version? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Thomas Lawrence wrote: Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. Glen Barber posted this... http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg217302.html ...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:49:12 + Thomas Lawrence wrote: > >Hello Guys and Gals, >Can you clear something up for me. >Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox > on Freebsd8. > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > Since there is no FreeBSD download from the VirtualBox website, my guess is no. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Virtualbox on Freebsd
Hello Guys and Gals, Can you clear something up for me. Is it possible to install the closed source version of Virtualbox on Freebsd8. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
VirtualBox on FreeBSD
Hello list, Does VirtualBox work on FreeBSD? I couldn't find it in ports. Did anyone manage to run it? Thanks. -- Best regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
