On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:30 PM, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, nolan de souza<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I've tried building it today, natively (and not as linux emulated.) Hit some >>> build problems midway including a siginfo_t one that I mentioned in an email >>> a few hours back. I think I've fixed that one but am still yet to fix >>> others. >>> >>> Does anyone know the exact build procedure for FreeBSD? Have we had a >>> successful build from trunk thus far? >>> >>> - Nolan. >>> >> I have not attempted a VirtualBox build on FreeBSD lately (never with >> the v2.0 code), but I've tracked info related to my previous attempts >> at: >> http://www.datahead.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox >> >> I know this is out of date now, but maybe something there could help you. > > Desmond raises an interesting question. If vbox is run in linux emulation > mode, what about the linux kernel module? Will linux vbox still run anyway? > Default Linux emulation for FreeBSD on all but 8-CURRENT is still a 2.4 kernel, which is likely too old to handle VirtualBox. If I remember correctly, the 7.1-RELEASE will turn on 2.6 Linux emulation by default, but I have no idea if that will help anything. I've never attempted building or running under Linux emulation on FreeBSD - everything I've worked on has been FreeBSD native.
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