[Bug 291128] emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-72: "vboxmanage guestproperty" on host does not show interface name for FreeBSD guest

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:40:12 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291128

            Bug ID: 291128
           Summary: emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-72: "vboxmanage
                    guestproperty" on host does not show interface name
                    for FreeBSD guest
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
               URL: https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbox/issues/403
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: vbox@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: thomas.dreibholz@gmail.com
          Assignee: vbox@FreeBSD.org
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(vbox@FreeBSD.org)

The VirtualBox guest additions on FreeBSD do not provide the guest instance's
IP addresses to the host system, i.e. it is missing in the properties listed
by:
vboxmanage guestproperty enumerate <FreeBSD_VM_Name>

Upstream bug and fix: https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbox/issues/403


This bug likely applies to all the different variants of the VirtualBox guest
utils, i.e.:
$ find /usr/ports/emulators/ -type d -maxdepth 1 -name
"virtualbox-ose-additions*"
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11-72
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-71
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11-71
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-72
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-70
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-legacy
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11-70
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11-legacy

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