Confusion About "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in VirtualBox"

[Ed Jobs]

On Friday 18 December 2009 06:39, Ryan Ware wrote:
> Maybe someone here can distribute some enlightenment.  In the press
> release for 8.0 it says, "FreeBSD now supports host and guest modes in
> VirtualBox".  I understand what the host mode support is with the
> VirtualBox port.  What I don't understand is what support for guest mode
> is.  I don't see anything anywhere about guest additions.  As far as I
> can tell, guest support seems to consist of simply allowing the kernel
> to run in VirtualBox.  Am I missing something?
> 
i'm not absolutely sure, but i think that the Virtualbox additions is what you 
are looking for. When an os is guest in Vbox, you can install the virtualbox 
additions (in the guest) to share the clipboard and integrate the mouse with 
the host machine.
I'm not perfectly sure, but i think that the additions build a kernel module 
and load it during the boot.
So what i get is that the 8.0 kernel has support for that module. (or maybe i 
am wrong? if someone knows, correct me)

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