inquiry on freebsd virtualbox port

[Adam Vande More]

Ωn Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 9:25 AM, <jason at aventia.pw> wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> I am using OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks) as a host OS with Virtualbox 5.1.8 and I
> have been having some odd things come up running FreeBSD11p1 as a guest OS.
>
> I have The FreeBSD pkg/port virtualbox-ose-additions is currently listed
> as 5.1.6_1 installed and generally it works great, but it seems not to
> support sharing the clipboard, filesystem or seamless mouse functionality
> as well as an odd anomaly with the mouse wheel causing Firefox to go to
> previously visited webpages.
>
> I have been using the closed source Parallels software which has different
> bugs associated with running FreeBSD as as guest OS.
>
> While I do use FreeBSD as a server remotely I am using this install to
> evaluate FreeBSD as a desktop environment.
>

https://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox contains information on FreeBSD guest
additions.  I haven't tested in your environment, but it works in others.

-- 
Adam