virtualbox and sub-ports: update to 4.3

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Please upgrade virtualbox and its sub-ports to version 4.3, which has been released this week.

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Cc Me!

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Any news? Anyone?

[markemer (Mark Anderson)]

Virtualbox is nomaintainer, so it's likely to take a bit more time. Let me take a look tonight.

[markemer (Mark Anderson)]

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[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

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[petrrr]

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[markemer (Mark Anderson)]

Ok, well I am looking at it now, but the big problem is that I am on 10.9 and the virtualbox port needs qt4. So this may be a little while. I need to go spin up a vm with 10.8 on it so I can play with it.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

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There has been a maintenance release 4.3.2: ​https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

If I can help with testing, I am still running OSX 10.8.

[markemer (Mark Anderson)]

qt4-mac has started working on 10.9 so I've started playing with this. I'll let you know when I have a portfile for you to try.

[royliu@…]

My work so far

[royliu@…]

I've attached a non-working patch, which represents my progress so far. There are a few things left to be done:

1. Sort out the PVM macro conflict. Apparently 10.8 defines it, and this conflicts with VirtualBox's own definition, which means "pointer to the VM struct".
2. Modernize deprecated use of the Carbon API.

It's going to be a challenge to get VirtualBox to build, and I just don't have to time to devote to this.

[markemer (Mark Anderson)]

I'm taking a look. I agree with royliu@…, this is going to be a hell of an effort to get this to build. It's going to be a little while.

[whcordis@…]

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[anddam (Andrea D'Amore)]

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[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It's not our job to rewrite the project's source code; the developers of virtualbox should be doing that. Are there already upstream tickets for these issues?

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

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[markemer (Mark Anderson)]

I'm mostly interested in getting it to compile. The other issues I will open tickets for upstream. If any compile blockers are too much heavy lifting, I'll open tickets upstream there too.

[royliu@…]

Overriding /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/usr/include/sys/param.h will do the trick, since it contains the conflicting definition of PVM. You'll then have to adapt old Carbon calls to the new APIs.

I doubt the VirtualBox devs will address the issue soon, since the use of PVM is pervasive.

Have (un)fun!

[ktaylor1024@…]

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As Virtualbox 4.3.4 and 4.2.20 have been released this week, could we at least upgrade the port to 4.2.20? I would guess that does not bring that much trouble in comparison to 4.3.x.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

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[joel@…]

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[petrrr]

I just would like to ping here. Is there still someone working on this?

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

As this ticket is NOT assigned to anyone it means that - unfortunately - NO ONE is working on it ATM...

If you need this port, please support the MacPorts community by picking it up, perhaps! :-)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

See also #50622 proposing an update to version 5.x.

[essandess (Steve Smith)]

CC me.

[socratisk (Socratis)]

I just posted an update about this on #50622 if you're interested. I think that this ticket is way too old and should be closed(?) as obsolete(?) and let the discussion continue in #50622. I don't see backporting 4.3.x happening any time soon...