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Sat, 22 Oct 2016 09:03:53 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.157.39.129 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Oct 2016 09:03:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Adam Vande More Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:03:52 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: inquiry on freebsd virtualbox port To: jason@aventia.pw Cc: vbox@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:44:20 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 16:03:54 -0000 =CE=A9n Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 9:25 AM, 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