VBoxSVC fails with "AddRef: refcnt=3221225469 state=2" message in log when accessing native CD on FreeBSD

[Dave Rivers]

On FreeBSD when you start an newly created machine, and attempt to indicate to access the host's CD drive for booting (select the host CD in the 'devices' pull down), the VM simply aborts.

The VBoxSVC log contains solely this info:

Log created: 2018-01-09T00:38:59.353089000Z
Executable: /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC
Arg[0]: /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC
Arg[1]: --auto-shutdown
AddRef: illegal refcnt=3221225469 state=2

No guest OS has been installed.

host OS: FreeBSD 11.1

[Dave Rivers]

VBox.log

[Dave Rivers]

Just to add...

The virtual box user is in the group "operator"; the HAL deamon (hald) is running:

$ ps -gax | grep hald
796  -  Ss    0:00.29 /usr/local/sbin/hald
801  -  I     0:00.06 hald-runner
816  -  S     0:00.19 hald-addon-storage: /dev/cd0 (hald-addon-storage)
953  3  S+    0:00.00 grep hald

The device permissions are:

$ ls -ld /dev/cd0
crw-rw----  1 root  operator  0x54 Jan  8 19:42 /dev/cd0

$ ls -l /dev/xpt0
crw-rw----  1 root  operator  0x47 Jan  8 19:42 /dev/xpt0

$ ls -l /dev/pass*
crw-rw----  1 root  operator  0x50 Jan  8 19:42 /dev/pass0
crw-rw----  1 root  operator  0x51 Jan  8 19:42 /dev/pass1
crw-rw----  1 root  operator  0x52 Jan  8 19:42 /dev/pass2
crw-rw----  1 root  operator  0x53 Jan  8 19:42 /dev/pass3

So - I don't think this is a permission problem.

[aeichner]

FreeBSD is not an offically supported host OS.