Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:25:41 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions Message-ID: <20110427142541.183a9ab7@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <eb755de7c8a1fa73949225f79159cd02@bluelife.at> References: <BANLkTi=OtC14-1nLjaRf6zg0r4ubmknANQ@mail.gmail.com> <ddd4b05f232847ee7910f158aaf22932@bluelife.at> <BANLkTi=ojfKjnJ03xycKsLWsQ7C7VLG5rA@mail.gmail.com> <eb755de7c8a1fa73949225f79159cd02@bluelife.at>
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:30:53 +0200 Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:13:53 +0600, Rion wrote: > > 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 Fröhlich > >> http://www.bluelife.at/ > >> > > > > thanks for reply > > > > after all I found out that setting sticky bit on VBoxClient is enough to make > > clipboard/display integration and seamless mode working. > > I didn't try other stuff though. > > Please describe that in more details. What exactly have you done? Do > you mean the filesystem sticky bit? > I think he meant suid - see above where he writes that starting it as root allowed everything to work. -- Gary Jennejohn
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