Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions

[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 Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/