VirtualBox Guest Additions provide closer integration between host and
guest, and improve the performance of guest systems.
This FreeBSD provided package can be installed in FreeBSD guest machines.
Additions are not intended for use on Host machines.
===> The following configuration options are available for virtualbox-ose-additions-70-7.0.26.1500068_2:
DBUS=on: D-Bus IPC system support
DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support
X11=on: X11 (graphics) support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
VirtualBox Guest Additions are installed.
To enable and start the required services:
# sysrc vboxguest_enable="YES"
# sysrc vboxservice_enable="YES"
To start the services, restart the system.
In some situations, a panic will occur when the kernel module loads.
Having no more than one virtual CPU might mitigate the issue.
For features such as window scaling and clipboard sharing, membership of
the wheel group is required. With username "jerry" as an example:
# pw groupmod wheel -m jerry
The settings dialogue for FreeBSD guests encourages use of the VMSVGA
graphics controller. Whilst this might suit installations of FreeBSD
without a desktop environment (a common use case), it is not appropriate
where Guest Additions are installed.
Where Guest Additions are installed:
1. prefer VBoxSVGA
2. do not enable 3D acceleration (doing so will invisibly
lose the preference for VBoxSVGA)
You may ignore the yellow alert that encourages use of VMSVGA.
emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions*: Flavorize, add xlibre flavor
Flavors: xorg (default), xlibre, nox11.
While here add PAE option for ARCH=i386, fix warnings from portclippy,
make non-functional changes related to indentation and formatting,
make simplification of CONFLICTS_INSTALL, make unification.
PR: 294806
Sponsored by: UNIS Labs
Co-authored-by: b-aaz <b-aazbsd@proton.me>
emulators/virtualbox-ose*: Exclude from extract bundled binary files of kBuild
Thes is ~430-640 files, ~30-55MB total for different platforms.
We are using devel/kBuild for build VirtualBox ports.
devel/kBuild is a newer version than the one included in the VirtualBox
tarballs.
emulators/virtualbox-ose{,-additions,-kmod}{,-nox11}-70: Deprecate and set to
expire on 2026-12-31
Upstream EOL reaches on 2025-04-15, use emulators/virtualbox-ose-*-72
instead.
PR: 289163
