Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6 - FreeBSD Guest Additions

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:30:53 +0200
Bernhard Froehlich <decke at bluelife.at> wrote:

> 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?
> 

I think he meant suid - see above where he writes that starting it as root
allowed everything to work.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn