[Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.4

[Bâkır EMRE]

> On 2012-10-30 04:16, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
>> Hi virtualbox users!
>>
>> This is again a call for testers to get some feedback before we commit
>> VirtualBox 4.2 to the portstree. If you already run VirtualBox 4.2.0 you
>> should definitely update to 4.2.4 because they fixed quite a few serious
>> bugs upstream.
>>
>> Our plan is still to commit 4.2 to the portstree as soon as FreeBSD 9.1
>> is out the door.
>>
>> If you are interested in helping with virtualbox maintenance and
>> development or have noticed a bug you can easily find us on IRC.
>>
>>
>> Please update devel/kBuild-devel before updating any of the virtualbox
>> ports and ensure that your Kernel sources match your running kernel
>> before building the virtualbox-ose-kmod port.
>>
>> Changes since VirtualBox 4.1:
>> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>>
>> VirtualBox 4.2.4 and 4.1.22 (legacy) Ports:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~decke/virtualbox/virtualbox-cft-4.2.4-20121030.tar.gz 
>>
>>
>> IRC: #freebsd-vbox on Freenode
>>
>>
>> Bernhard on behalf of the new VirtualBox on FreeBSD Team! 
virtualbox 4.2.4 still working with my previous VMs, butVBoxHeadless 
doesn't support VNC in 4.2.4.

libvncserver installed

[root at VBOX ~]pkg_info |grep vnc
libvncserver-0.9.9_2 Provide an easy API to write one's own vnc server

anxd my config parameters are same in 4.2.4 and 4.1.22 versions

[root at VBOX /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose]# make
===>  License GPLv2 accepted by the user
===>  Found saved configuration for virtualbox-ose-4.2.4
===>  Extracting for virtualbox-ose-4.2.4
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for VirtualBox-4.2.4.tar.bz2.
===>  Patching for virtualbox-ose-4.2.4
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for virtualbox-ose-4.2.4
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: yasm - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: as86 - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: xsltproc - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: kmk - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: gtar - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: soapcpp2 - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on file: 
/usr/local/bin/easy_install-2.7 - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python2.7 - 
found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: pkgconf - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on executable: cdrecord - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: png15 - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: xslt.2 - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: curl.6 - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: dbus-1.3 - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: vncserver.0 - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: glib-2.0.0 - found
===>   virtualbox-ose-4.2.4 depends on shared library: IDL-2.0 - found

After building virtualbox-ose-4.2.4, VBoxHeadless doesn't offer vnc support

[root at VBOX ~]# VBoxHeadless
Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.2.4_OSE
(C) 2008-2012 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Usage:
    -s, -startvm, --startvm <name|uuid>   Start given VM (required argument)
    -v, -vrde, --vrde on|off|config       Enable (default) or disable 
the VRDE
...


But old version have vnc support with same compile options

[root at VBOX ~]# VBoxHeadless
Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.1.22_OSE
(C) 2008-2012 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Usage:
    -s, -startvm, --startvm <name|uuid>   Start given VM (required argument)
    -n, --vnc                             Enable the built in VNC server
    -m, --vncport <port>                  TCP port number to use for the 
VNC server
    -o, --vncpass <pw>                    Set the VNC server password
    -v, -vrde, --vrde on|off|config       Enable (default) or disable 
the VRDE