From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 12:25:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98C01065672 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:25:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gljennjohn@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A72C8FC1D for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so1898857bwz.13 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:25:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:reply-to:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=8lx+aQSWZKEqRaXrB0eA+7/JFbR/o2LSJ8rgy6ojaK4=; b=NftxR1bUS0b5znVeuUByARqkF6GbAjgXaoje1aXecXwCcOXOM9Klxv5KAHqW9La8i8 DxbeHYWoqPETpGMVdsfpayrsZdkTg05vO16wIWaKreDBjfD9hpXMWpzyF7LbC6iPl9Ty LnSO23GUzEw1UlH0gtA90WDIAlwS70jA8HrCo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tLOm0fhmAqkqtf6+8djtj01G2CA4E9xV7NBYYqbwdPGzVDuftS3kNBNy/t2AFeSsc0 YF+tvwgutcZZAEOgW+Hl4sSnz8zpWzQj/8rOyKyYMEo1AUYu3jVX2i8pY2O+2vIgCe3f IdQoV+KPNOR9Muu6X60cRoRanGZEa2BrIzc8A= Received: by 10.204.74.7 with SMTP id s7mr217155bkj.57.1303907145229; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ernst.jennejohn.org (p578E249E.dip.t-dialin.net [87.142.36.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l1sm401675bkl.13.2011.04.27.05.25.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:25:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:25:41 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Bernhard Froehlich Message-ID: <20110427142541.183a9ab7@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.18.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:25:49 -0000 On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:30:53 +0200 Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:13:53 +0600, Rion wrote: > > 2011/4/27 Bernhard Froehlich : > >> 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