From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 31 11:58:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0688E106566B for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:58:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lokadamus@gmx.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E5778FC13 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 31 Dec 2009 11:58:20 -0000 Received: from d018161.adsl.hansenet.de (EHLO [80.171.18.161]) [80.171.18.161] by mail.gmx.net (mp022) with SMTP; 31 Dec 2009 12:58:20 +0100 X-Authenticated: #3333826 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19gqDIWa9hgjFBLh5pl6kuAvT2GNw6Mk7iToW4Ie8 0oVcj/0th0oSDb Message-ID: <4B3C91DC.8030802@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:58:20 +0100 From: Lokadamus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4B2B0790.2010005@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.65 Subject: Re: Confusion About "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:58:24 -0000 Am 28.12.2009 19:10, schrieb Ivan Voras: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> Ryan Ware wrote: >>> Maybe someone here can distribute some enlightenment. In the press >>> release for 8.0 it says, "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes >>> in VirtualBox". I understand what the host mode support is with the >>> VirtualBox port. What I don't understand is what support for guest >>> mode is. I don't see anything anywhere about guest additions. As >>> far as I can tell, guest support seems to consist of simply allowing >>> the kernel to run in VirtualBox. Am I missing something? >> >> AFAIK no, that's it. > > Actually, it looks like the newest version (will arrive to ports soon) > has guest tools/additions for FreeBSD. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > When you download https://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/virtualbox-port-r601.tar.gz you can see, that there 3 ports. Two ports are for host, i think and one port has name "virtualbox-ose-additions". I think this port will make guest additions for freebsd as guest. --