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Date:      Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:19:38 +0000
From:      Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.eclipse.co.uk>
To:        "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdowse@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox - does it work for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <19288.36010.940215.887078@millingtons.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100121115516.299c841d.dcdowse@gmx.net>
References:  <19287.65081.250316.239094@millingtons.org> <20100121115516.299c841d.dcdowse@gmx.net>

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Daniel C. Dowse writes:
 > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:11:53 +0000 at 
 > Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > >Good Morning :-)
 > >
 > >A quick question for anyone running VirtualBox on a FreeBSD _host_
 > >machine, with Linux or Windows as a _guest_ OS.  
 > >
 > >
 > >Does it work? 
 > >
 > >
 > >That is, do the guest additions work fully for those guests, or are
 > >there limitations such those I experience currently when running
 > >FreeBSD 8 as the guest?  (eg no access to USB, no fullscreen mode).
 > >Any major problems with a FreeBSDS host and Windows/Linux guest?
 > >
 > >atb
 > 
 > for Guest OS Windows XP Pro SP2 : 
 >  
 > I used to mount usb & disc drives, outside of VB and access the
 > Volumes as a SMB Network Share. Fullscreen Works after installing the
 > Host Utilities for Windows. 

Thanks to Ivan and yourself -that's just the info I need!

atb

Glyn



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