From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 10:05:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CBA1065673 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:05:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from groupware.itac.at (groupware.itac.at [91.205.172.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A326C8FC1B for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.bluelife.at (93.104.210.95) by groupware.itac.at (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 12D5E3; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:04:59 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:04:59 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Rion In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: X-Sender: decke@bluelife.at User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.2 X-AxigenSpam-Level: 1 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0203.4DB7EA4A.01B2,ss=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:05:00 -0000 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/