From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 10 11:05:37 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A672CD38 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw (FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw [140.113.17.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8B789B for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw (Postfix, from userid 1058) id 710E02650; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:00:17 +0800 (CST) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:00:17 +0800 From: Li-Wen Hsu To: Charlie Ross Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions Message-ID: <20150310110017.GA73012@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> References: <51844217-5658@mail.wirelessinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <51844217-5658@mail.wirelessinc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 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: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:05:37 -0000 On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 05:50:40 -0400, Charlie Ross wrote: > > Li-Wen Hsu , 3/10/2015 2:10 AM: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Charlie Ross wrote: > > > Hi port maintainers! > > > > > > I am having problems with VirtualBox guest additions. I've had this issue on > > > several different systems. > > > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE as a guest under Windows 7 and 8 systems. I > > > have followed the instructions in the Handbook and on the wiki in regard to > > > setting up guest additions; however, the shared clipboard does not work. > > > Mouse pointer integration is working. Using "mount -t vboxsf FolderName > > > /mountpoint" to mount shared folders does not appear to work, either. > > > > > > Are these features implemented, or are there known bugs? > > > > I don't use shared clipboard so I am not sure if it is a bug or > > unimplemented feature. > > The shared folder does not work at this point because it is not > > completed yet.  For > > more information, please see: > > > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#VirtualBox_shared_folder_support_for_FreeBSD_guests > > Thanks for getting back to me. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit, but the clipboard problem was my fault: I use the OpenBox window manager, and unlike other WMs, the VBoxClient was not starting automatically on login. Once I started the client manually, it started working correctly. Forgive me for wasting your time!  > Thanks, That's OK. Please also help on completing shared folder or testing when it is fixed. Li-Wen -- Li-Wen Hsu http://lwhsu.org