FreeBSD Port: emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions

[Charlie Ross]

Yes, apologies for neglecting that. My user is in the wheel and operator
groups.

Thanks,

Charlie

On 03/27/2014 19:25, Thomas Hoffmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Charlie Ross <charlie at cdub.org
> <mailto:charlie at cdub.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     Running the latest version of VirtualBox (4.3.10 as well as 4.3.8) on
>     Windows 8.1 64-bit, clipboard integration does not seem to work with
>     FreeBSD guests using the virtualbox-ose-additions port (I am running
>     FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE x64 guests). I am unable to copy from or to FreeBSD
>     guests. Other aspects of the virtualbox-ose-additions port seem to be
>     working fine (for example, mouse pointer integration works well).
>     Clipboard integration is working fine on a Debian VM, so it appears to
>     be a specific problem with FreeBSD.
> 
>     The clipboard issue is causing me extreme frustration, and I simply
>     don't know enough to fix it myself.
> 
>     If you are able to fix this problem and update this port, or tell me how
>     I might fix it successfully, I will offer a bounty of 2 Litecoins (LTC)
>     -- or the equivalent in Bitcoins (BTC) paid either directly to you or
>     the FreeBSD foundation.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     Charlie Ross
> 
> 
>  You did not state it in your post, so I have to ask the obvious
> question: did you add the X users who want to use clipboard sharing to
> the 'wheel' group as  per /usr/ports/virtualbox-ose-additions/pkg-message?
> 
> -Tom
>