Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:05:43 -0300 From: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has anyone had any success installing VirtualBox extension pack under FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20170727190543.673eeff6@Papi> In-Reply-To: <ff9ba8b6-5eb3-5b81-6f68-9a03c29ecab4@nosheep.fr> References: <VI1PR02MB1200D1CD986F5F8A62889069F6B90@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <cb283d87-659f-cdb4-b912-558614a4ed76@nosheep.fr> <VI1PR02MB1200D980BBC1B379D89DA44CF6BE0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <ff9ba8b6-5eb3-5b81-6f68-9a03c29ecab4@nosheep.fr>
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 22:59:56 +0200 Grégory Reinbold <gregory@nosheep.fr> wrote: > 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 > A while back, I wrote directly to Frank Mehnert - Oracle Software Development Director about this issue. He replied as follows: --------------------------------------------- Hi Mario, just saw your other mail and I just saw this mail again. Sorry for the late response! On Thursday 02 June 2016 16:06:01 you wrote: > I've been using VB with my beloved FreeBSD since its early days, when > USB 1.0 used to be the standard. > > Now a days, it is no longer viable, even if we downgrade the USB > connection through the OS to usb 1.0. The device shows up on the guest > but that is as far as it goes. It simply doesn't work. > > I see that you have pre-compiled extension packs for Windows and Linux > hosts. VB compiles and works great through the ports in FreeBSD. The > highest available official version 4.3.38 but through the works of > Jung-uk Kim, I am running 5.0.20 right now! If it wasn't for this USB > issue, VB would be completely operational on FBSD! > > You probably have been asked about this a lot, but do you see a > possibility anywhere in the future, of providing a pre-compiled > extension pack for FreeBSD? I never understood why Windows and Linux > have it and FreeBSD doesn't. Is there a particular reason for it? > > Is there anyway I can help with this matter? Anybody in particular I > can plead for this? > > Again, my apologies for barging in, and thank you for reading and for > your time. hard to say. I guess if the USB devices worked in the past then this was probably because the due to the missing Extension Pack the devices were forced to use the USB 1 mode. Providing Extenicode for FreeBSD is not impossible but would require some effort. The most important part is probably to find a compatible build environment. I don't say "No" in general but we need to think about this in more detail. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany --------------------------------------------- Maybe a contact from a "high" FBS foundation member could help in moving this forward. I don't know. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things."help
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