Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:30:53 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> To: Rion <rion4ik@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions Message-ID: <eb755de7c8a1fa73949225f79159cd02@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=ojfKjnJ03xycKsLWsQ7C7VLG5rA@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTi=OtC14-1nLjaRf6zg0r4ubmknANQ@mail.gmail.com> <ddd4b05f232847ee7910f158aaf22932@bluelife.at> <BANLkTi=ojfKjnJ03xycKsLWsQ7C7VLG5rA@mail.gmail.com>
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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? -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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