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/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
