[PC-BSD Testing] VBox and PCBSD 8.1

[Kris Moore]

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On 09/28/2010 11:36, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <201009280734.30915.josh at tcbug.org>
>             Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> writes:
> : On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 01:02:44 am M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > In message: <201009280748.35992.jhugo at meraka.csir.co.za>
> : > 
> : >             Johann Hugo <jhugo at meraka.csir.co.za> writes:
> : > : According to the http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox page the bridging
> : > : modules should be loaded from some scrip after the kernel has booted.
> : > : 
> : > : At the moment I do a kldload vboxnetflt vboxnetadp manually, but I was
> : > : wondering if PCBSD could load them automatically if one installed the
> : > : virtualbox pbi.
> : > 
> : > I have VirtualBox on my FreeBSD (not PC-BSD boxes).  I have the
> : > following changes:
> : > 
> : > /etc/rc.conf:
> : > 
> : > vboxnet_enable=YES
> : > 
> : > /boot/loader.conf:
> : > 
> : > vboxdrv_load=YES
> : > 
> : > and I have a bridging virtual machine that pops up on my local
> : > network.  I have virtualbox-ose-3.1.8 and virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.1.8
> : > installed on this box.  I've not tried newer versions.  I'd try the
> : > above settings, and if that fails, see if you can snag an older
> : > version somehow.
> : > 
> : > I've not installed virtual box on any of my PC-BSD boxes, so I can't
> : > comment about that.
> : > 
> : > Warner
> : 
> : The PBI doesn't install any sort of startup script that can read the rc.conf 
> : entry.  Do your FreeBSD systems have one?
> 
> /usr/local/etc/vboxnet gets installed, the meat of which is:
> 
> vboxnet_start()
> {
>         if ! kldstat -q -m ng_vboxnetflt;
>         then
>                 if ! kldload vboxnetflt > /dev/null 2>&1;
>                 then
>                         warn "Can't load vboxnetflt module."
>                         return 1
>                 fi
>         fi
> 
>         if ! kldstat -q -m vboxnetadp;
>         then
>                 if ! kldload vboxnetadp > /dev/null 2>&1;
>                 then
>                         warn "Can't load vboxnetadp module."
>                         return 1
>                 fi
>         fi
> }
> 
> Warner
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I've just added that to the PBI now, it'll use the rc.d script and load
the modules the same way the port does :)

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Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
iXsystems
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