Re: Call for tester: VirtualBox 3.1.2 for FreeBSD

From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke_at_bluelife.at>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:23:06 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, December 28, 2009 7:24 pm, Doug Barton wrote:
> Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>> Looks like you installed the guest additions on the host. You should not
>> do that. They should only be installed on FreeBSD guests running in an
>> virtualbox.
>
> The pkg-descr and COMMENT should probably be amended to reflect this
> since it was confusing to me too. :) Perhaps something like the attached?
>
> Also, in looking at the shell script that is provided for the
> additions it would be nice if it could be updated to an rc.d style
> script. If anyone wants to tackle that and needs help feel free to
> follow up on the -ports list, or freebsd-rc_at_FreeBSD.org.

Thanks. I've applied the patch and will write a new rc.d startscript for
the guest additions. Looks like they need a bit love anyway.

http://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports/revision/?rev=607

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Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/
Received on Mon Dec 28 2009 - 18:23:08 UTC

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