FreeBSD Port: emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions

[Li-Wen Hsu]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 05:50:40 -0400, Charlie Ross wrote:
> > Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu at FreeBSD.org> , 3/10/2015 2:10 AM:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Charlie Ross <cross at wirelessinc.com> wrote: 
> > > Hi port maintainers! 
> > > 
> > > I am having problems with VirtualBox guest additions. I've had this issue on 
> > > several different systems. 
> > > 
> > > I'm running FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE as a guest under Windows 7 and 8 systems. I 
> > > have followed the instructions in the Handbook and on the wiki in regard to 
> > > setting up guest additions; however, the shared clipboard does not work. 
> > > Mouse pointer integration is working. Using "mount -t vboxsf FolderName 
> > > /mountpoint" to mount shared folders does not appear to work, either. 
> > > 
> > > Are these features implemented, or are there known bugs? 
> >  
> > I don't use shared clipboard so I am not sure if it is a bug or 
> > unimplemented feature. 
> > The shared folder does not work at this point because it is not 
> > completed yet.  For 
> > more information, please see: 
> >  
> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#VirtualBox_shared_folder_support_for_FreeBSD_guests 
>
>  Thanks for getting back to me. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit, but the clipboard problem was my fault: I use the OpenBox window manager, and unlike other WMs, the VBoxClient was not starting automatically on login. Once I started the client manually, it started working correctly. Forgive me for wasting your time! 
> Thanks,

That's OK.  Please also help on completing shared folder or testing when it is fixed.

Li-Wen

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