Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:13:53 +0600, Rion wrote:
> 2011/4/27 Bernhard Froehlich <decke at bluelife.at>:
>> 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/
>>
> 
> thanks for reply
> 
> after all I found out that setting sticky bit on VBoxClient is enough to make
> clipboard/display integration and seamless mode working.
> I didn't try other stuff though.

Please describe that in more details. What exactly have you done? Do
you mean the filesystem sticky bit?

-- 
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/