Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:00:57 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org> To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions Message-ID: <c7dec62f030570e8323301d783fd4375@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <03fbda8bf6a3cc4f6ec72b4bca9156a4@bluelife.at> References: <BANLkTi=OtC14-1nLjaRf6zg0r4ubmknANQ@mail.gmail.com> <ddd4b05f232847ee7910f158aaf22932@bluelife.at> <BANLkTi=ojfKjnJ03xycKsLWsQ7C7VLG5rA@mail.gmail.com> <eb755de7c8a1fa73949225f79159cd02@bluelife.at> <BANLkTin-UhcVSzPJZGNYfyYb8eBOJ2r95g@mail.gmail.com> <03fbda8bf6a3cc4f6ec72b4bca9156a4@bluelife.at>
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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 <decke@bluelife.at>: >>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:13:53 +0600, Rion wrote: >>>> 2011/4/27 Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at>: >>>>> 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/
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