Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:29:00 +0200, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> 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.

Works fine for me. Change is committed in blueports.

http://svn.bluelife.at/index.cgi/blueports/revision/?rev=1297

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