Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 22:59:56 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Gr=c3=a9gory_Reinbold?= <gregory@nosheep.fr> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Has anyone had any success installing VirtualBox extension pack under FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <ff9ba8b6-5eb3-5b81-6f68-9a03c29ecab4@nosheep.fr> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB1200D980BBC1B379D89DA44CF6BE0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB1200D1CD986F5F8A62889069F6B90@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <cb283d87-659f-cdb4-b912-558614a4ed76@nosheep.fr> <VI1PR02MB1200D980BBC1B379D89DA44CF6BE0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On 27/07/2017 05:17, Manish Jain wrote: > > On 07/26/17 15:13, Grégory Reinbold wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Did you try it? >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-guest-virtualbox.html >> >> >> >> On 26/07/2017 11:16, Manish Jain wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would, possibly like many others, like to install VirtualBox extension >>> pack under FreeBSD. Currently, the VB::USB situation is so messy that no >>> device other than keyboard/mouse work, not even as OHCI. >>> >>> I tried to open a discussion for this at VB forums : >>> >>> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=83928 >>> >>> There response is so pathetic that it essentially leaves no hope. >>> >>> The only hope seems to be hacking the extension packing with the >>> Linuxulator, getting the extension pack to think that the OS actually is >>> Linux. Has anyone had any success with such an approach / something >>> else ? >>> >>> Thanks for any pointers. >>> Manish Jain > Hi Gregory, > > Thanks for replying. > > I think the URL you referred to caters essentially to Guest utilities. > Not to FreeBSD host in general, and in particular USB functionality > under the host in particular. > > While my VB post got a lot of evasive/contradictory statements from the > VB developers (stuff like initial assertion - later corrected - that VB > extension pack is not platform specific), one interesting statement of > the folks there is that OHCI functionality is provided out-of-the box > and not platform-specific implementation. > > Since OHCI only works for keyboard/mouse under FreeBSD, is it possible > that FreeBSD porters actually disable OHCI at our end (in the process of > porting the VB sources for FreeBSD) ? > > Thanks for any information. > Manish Jain > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host-virtualbox.html#virtualization-virtualbox-usb-support TheVirtualBox™extension pack is not available for FreeBSD hosts. Without the extension pack, the FreeBSD host cannot passUSBports through to guest operating systems. So, on VB website we can see this: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing And we can download the extension pack here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.26/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.1.26-117224.vbox-extpack So, how to install it? Maybe this can help you? https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-extpack -- Grégory Reinbold
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