From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 27 21:00:06 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DE1DAFEBE for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:00:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gregory@nosheep.fr) Received: from home.nosheep.fr (home.nosheep.fr [83.155.8.188]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51A4E64886 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:00:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gregory@nosheep.fr) Received: from [192.168.1.103] (unknown [192.168.1.7]) (Authenticated sender: gregory) by home.nosheep.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A4B77FBCC for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 22:59:56 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Has anyone had any success installing VirtualBox extension pack under FreeBSD ? To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: From: =?UTF-8?Q?Gr=c3=a9gory_Reinbold?= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 22:59:56 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:00:06 -0000 On 27/07/2017 05:17, Manish Jain wrote: > > On 07/26/17 15:13, Grégory Reinbold wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Did you try it? >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-guest-virtualbox.html >> >> >> >> On 26/07/2017 11:16, Manish Jain wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would, possibly like many others, like to install VirtualBox extension >>> pack under FreeBSD. Currently, the VB::USB situation is so messy that no >>> device other than keyboard/mouse work, not even as OHCI. >>> >>> I tried to open a discussion for this at VB forums : >>> >>> https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=83928 >>> >>> There response is so pathetic that it essentially leaves no hope. >>> >>> The only hope seems to be hacking the extension packing with the >>> Linuxulator, getting the extension pack to think that the OS actually is >>> Linux. Has anyone had any success with such an approach / something >>> else ? >>> >>> Thanks for any pointers. >>> Manish Jain > Hi Gregory, > > Thanks for replying. > > I think the URL you referred to caters essentially to Guest utilities. > Not to FreeBSD host in general, and in particular USB functionality > under the host in particular. > > While my VB post got a lot of evasive/contradictory statements from the > VB developers (stuff like initial assertion - later corrected - that VB > extension pack is not platform specific), one interesting statement of > the folks there is that OHCI functionality is provided out-of-the box > and not platform-specific implementation. > > Since OHCI only works for keyboard/mouse under FreeBSD, is it possible > that FreeBSD porters actually disable OHCI at our end (in the process of > porting the VB sources for FreeBSD) ? > > Thanks for any information. > Manish Jain > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host-virtualbox.html#virtualization-virtualbox-usb-support TheVirtualBox™extension pack is not available for FreeBSD hosts. Without the extension pack, the FreeBSD host cannot passUSBports through to guest operating systems. So, on VB website we can see this: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing And we can download the extension pack here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.26/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.1.26-117224.vbox-extpack So, how to install it? Maybe this can help you? https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-extpack -- Grégory Reinbold