From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 10:13:54 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 7CAAC106566B for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:13:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rion4ik@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B688FC12 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so491255yxl.13 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:13:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HS6mx8TVOYL/viOcghMwbEseXtuZzq89rQIlFy7ZwzA=; b=Ywb8YDd37EI6PjBzyZScfiJ7f/2cffduK3kV33EBHGpbjWpG3DlJusxPnWalFUTa9m 3JHaJ5ZsdcuMdE/jcKO57rbs5hDDKhhD0UkUrUxzaA1biUs6uL9vrCG9hwcrQPzBix25 scSIX/UQiYR/nCkYEL+GA3qrTVsxXtSds0dBY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ofBU3lAZeXXTJBWLUP6D2M/cMAx6YOP/FJ1QDd/+xr9PRSZb/+kYRpgJOyKi6NMpMb iAsOSoz+FzL81N5SrVEq4phCKb596sJyo+FMrnKAotMQAzTjLZ2+99uAOWvaU8Cq9I54 fiHJ2rtUxjpATMVnszFSz+RogHFqXgXYaLeyI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.250.5 with SMTP id x5mr1678395ybh.174.1303899233472; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.83.16 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:13:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:13:53 +0600 Message-ID: From: Rion To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 10:13:54 -0000 2011/4/27 Bernhard Froehlich : > 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 Fr=C3=B6hlich > http://www.bluelife.at/ > thanks for reply after all I found out that setting sticky bit on VBoxClient is enough to ma= ke clipboard/display integration and seamless mode working. I didn't try other stuff though.