Solved VirtualBox not working (yet ?) on 13.2-RELEASE

[tennea9]

Hello everyone,

Just began to try 13.2-RELEASE and I'm encountering a problem with VirtualBox installation.
vboxdrv fails to load. Is it too early to use vbox ?

Following the usual installation process :

pkg ins -y virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-additions
sysrc vboxguest_enable=YES vboxservice_enable=YES vboxnet_enable=YES

echo 'vboxdrv_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf

pw groupmod vboxusers -m myself

echo 'own vboxnetctl root:vboxusers' >> /etc/devfs.conf
echo 'perm vboxnetctl 0660' >> /etc/devfs.conf

reboot

Here is the dmesg :

Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default []...
ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0: <VBOX HARDDISK 1.0> ATA-6 device
ada0: Serial Number VB72781ddd-2e77c158
ada0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 65536bytes)
ada0: 30720MB (62914560 512 byte sectors)
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <VBOX CD-ROM 1.0> Removable CD-ROM SCSI device
cd0: Serial Number VB2-01700376
cd0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 65534bytes)
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
uhub0: 12 ports with 12 removable, self powered
vboxguest0 port 0xd040-0xd05f mem 0xf0400000-0xf07fffff,0xf0800000-0xf0803fff irq 20 at device 4.0 on pci0
vboxguest: loaded successfully
KLD vboxdrv.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
linker_load_file: /boot/modules/vboxdrv.ko - unsupported file type
intsmb0: <Intel PIIX4 SMBUS Interface> irq 23 at device 7.0 on pci0
intsmb0: intr IRQ 9 enabled revision 0
smbus0: <System Management Bus> on intsmb0
lo0: link state changed to UP
em0: link state changed to UP
Security policy loaded: MAC/ntpd (mac_ntpd)

 

[Emrion]

Salut,

Just look here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-13-2-and-virtualbox-ose.88747/
Read patiently and carefully.

 

[tennea9]

Oh thank you very much !!
Don't know why I never found those messages on the forum... I understand why the Handbook only talks about ports now. I may be mistaking but I believe remembering that there was the package indicated before in the handbook.

 

[Emrion]

Didn't pay attention to that:
pkg ins -y virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-additions

emulators/virtualbox-ose and emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions aren't the same thing at all. The first is to run VirtualBox in a bare metal FreeBSD machine, the second is to provide some drivers (including video VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA) in order to run FreeBSD into a VirtualBox VM on any guest.

What do you to do?

 

[tennea9]

I use both.
Virtualbox with FreeBSD as a host, and sometimes I make labs with FreeBSD's VM (inside Virtualbox, on FreeBSD as a host)
Thanks

 

[SirDice]

Virtualbox with FreeBSD as a host, and sometimes I make labs with FreeBSD's VM (inside Virtualbox, on FreeBSD as a host)

Depending a bit on your hardware but won't bhyve(8) be a better solution?

 

[tennea9]

obviously... love bhyve !
But it's harder to send VM labs to students working on Winshit !

 

[tennea9]

virtualbox is ok from the latest repository

 

[SirDice]

13.1 is EoL and packages are specifically build for 13.2 now.

 

[tennea9]

Yes Thank you. I updated to the latest repository a few weeks ago, and it was working !
Great !

 

[SirDice]

The quarterly repositories have also been rebuilt, specifically for 13.2.

 

[tennea9]

Great ! Thank you.

 

[SirDice]

You can keep track of the package build systems here: https://pkg-status.freebsd.org

Interface is a bit daunting at first but you can see which servers are building, for what architecture, version, etc. You can even view build logs and failures for everything, but those are only accessible if you have IPv6.

 

[tennea9]

Wow.. I didn't know this web page !! Amazing. Thank you !