From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 19:00:58 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 35D5D106566C for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:00:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@FreeBSD.org) Received: from groupware.itac.at (groupware.itac.at [91.205.172.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3F68FC0C for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.bluelife.at (93.104.210.95) by groupware.itac.at (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 3F3CA1; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:00:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:00:57 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Bernhard Froehlich In-Reply-To: <03fbda8bf6a3cc4f6ec72b4bca9156a4@bluelife.at> References: <03fbda8bf6a3cc4f6ec72b4bca9156a4@bluelife.at> Message-ID: X-Sender: decke@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.2 X-AxigenSpam-Level: 1 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0206.4DB867E8.01C2,ss=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown 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 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 19:00:58 -0000 On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:29:00 +0200, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:32:49 +0600, Rion wrote: >> 2011/4/27 Bernhard Froehlich : >>> 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? >>> >>> -- >>> Bernhard Fröhlich >>> http://www.bluelife.at/ >>> >> >> yep chmod +s /usr/local/bin/VBoxClient > > Thanks! I will try to verify that in the evening if nobody else > confirms that in the meantime. That would be a very easy fix for the > additions. Works fine for me. Change is committed in blueports. http://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports/revision/?rev=1297 -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/