Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:03:52 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: jason@aventia.pw Cc: vbox@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inquiry on freebsd virtualbox port Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK2RdCHf8QJLO31M9n6jsZBMd0jWC%2B0VdV%2BfCpsPbKRh_g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <fc7d9e6106f543900b62acb56493ea56@www.aventia.pw> References: <fc7d9e6106f543900b62acb56493ea56@www.aventia.pw>
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=CE=A9n Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 9:25 AM, <jason@aventia.pw> wrote: > Hi There, > > I am using OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks) as a host OS with Virtualbox 5.1.8 and = I > have been having some odd things come up running FreeBSD11p1 as a guest O= S. > > I have The FreeBSD pkg/port virtualbox-ose-additions is currently listed > as 5.1.6_1 installed and generally it works great, but it seems not to > support sharing the clipboard, filesystem or seamless mouse functionality > as well as an odd anomaly with the mouse wheel causing Firefox to go to > previously visited webpages. > > I have been using the closed source Parallels software which has differen= t > bugs associated with running FreeBSD as as guest OS. > > While I do use FreeBSD as a server remotely I am using this install to > evaluate FreeBSD as a desktop environment. > https://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox contains information on FreeBSD guest additions. I haven't tested in your environment, but it works in others. --=20 Adam
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