Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:32:49 +0600, Rion wrote:
> 2011/4/27 Bernhard Froehlich <decke at bluelife.at>:
>> 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/
>>
> 
> yep chmod +s /usr/local/bin/VBoxClient

Thanks! I will try to verify that in the evening if nobody else
confirms that in the meantime. That would be a very easy fix for the
additions.

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