Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:13:53 +0600 From: Rion <rion4ik@gmail.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions Message-ID: <BANLkTi=ojfKjnJ03xycKsLWsQ7C7VLG5rA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ddd4b05f232847ee7910f158aaf22932@bluelife.at> References: <BANLkTi=OtC14-1nLjaRf6zg0r4ubmknANQ@mail.gmail.com> <ddd4b05f232847ee7910f158aaf22932@bluelife.at>
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2011/4/27 Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at>: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:12:29 +0600, Rion wrote: >> Hi >> >> I just installed FreeBSD-8.2 as guest by this instruction >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox >> using blueports. >> >> * Mouse integration works well >> * Clipboard integration doesn't work >> * Auto guest screen resize on VB window resize doesn't work >> >> I'm absolutely new for FreeBSD and don't know what can be wrong. >> and here is my investigation. >> Xorg.0.log doesn't mention any issues >> I tried to manually start VBoxClient-all but it writes to stdout >> "Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service" 4 times >> But if it's started by root(through sudo) nothing wrong happened >> and moreover clipboard and display integration starts working. >> I tried to set 0666 permissions to /dev/vboxguest* but this doesn't help= . >> In any case it must be started as not-root user since its started by >> *.desktop file. >> >> from other things: >> * vboxguest kernel module loaded fine >> * VBoxService started and I see it in processes >> * nothing wrong in dmesg and syslog from first look. >> >> Not-mentioned in wiki things: >> * procfs must be mounted >> * xrandr must be installed > > Clipboard sharing used to work in virtualbox 3.2. but I also saw that > they do not work on 4.0. > > I also know that the virtualbox guest additions are generally in a very > bad shape. There are at least a few more bugs and features missing but > nobody had time yet to debug that and fix those problems. I spend some > time to integrate the additions better into the system (rc scripts, > autostart ...) during the 4.0 development phase but I guess we need a > few weeks of manpower to get the additions fully tested first, identify > the problems and implement the missing features. We actually already > started with the testing and identifying: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox/ToDo > > If someone wants to contribute I think that is a very nice project. > > -- > Bernhard Fr=C3=B6hlich > http://www.bluelife.at/ > thanks for reply after all I found out that setting sticky bit on VBoxClient is enough to ma= ke clipboard/display integration and seamless mode working. I didn't try other stuff though.
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