VirtualBox Guest Additions provide closer integration between host and
guest, and improve the performance of guest systems.
Non-legacy additions i.e. emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions are
recommended for most use cases.
Where legacy (5.2.x) is a requirement, this FreeBSD-provided package
can be installed in the FreeBSD guest machine.
<https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-5.2> emphasises that
5.2.x is no longer supported by Oracle.
Additions are not intended for use on Host machines.
===> The following configuration options are available for virtualbox-ose-additions-legacy-5.2.44.1500068_11:
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}-legacy: Unification of patches with ports
emulators/virtualbox-ose{,-additions}
Replace REINPLACE_CMD in Makefiles with patches in files/*.
PR: 272991279257
MFH: 2025Q1
emulators/virtualbox-ose*: Improve ports
* Replace PORTVERSION with DISTVERSION.
* Fix CONFLICTS_INSTALL.
* Fix PYTHON in DEFAULT_OPTIONS in emulators/virtualbox-ose.
* Pet portclippy and portlint.
* Formatting and etc.
PR: 258159
emulators/virtualbox-ose{,-nox11,-kmod,-additions,-additions-nox11}-legacy: fix
build with llvm15+, fix run with PAE on i386
* Fix build with llvm15+ from ports and from base:
- ISO C++17 does not allow 'register' storage class specifier;
- require -fPIC on i386.
* Fix load kernel modules on host and guest i386 if kernel compiled with
PAE option: add non-default option PAE to ports.
Based on patches from mi@.
PR: 279257224616
Approved by: vbox (maintainer, timeout 1 month and 6 years)
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions*: Bump portrevision.
Force update after xorg-server update. Sei PORTREVISION=0 on nox11
versions since those don't need reinstallation.
PR: 265731
Reported by: O. Hartmann <ohartmann@walstatt.org>
*/*: Remove redundant '-[0-9]*' from CONFLICTS_INSTALL
The conflict checks compare the patterns first against the package
names without version (as reported by "pkg query "%n"), then - if
there was no match - agsinst the full package names including the
version (as reported by "pkg query "%n-%v").
Approved by: portmgr (blanket)
emulators/virtualbox-ose: Update description and message files
- Add updated information about supported versions, installation
commands and mitigation for a known issue.
- Removed reference to the wiki page.
Reviewed on github:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/115
PR: 254412
- Update VirtualBox OSE to 6.1.18
- Old VirtualBox OSE 5.2.44 preserved as "-legacy" versions of the
ports (repocopied)
- Add back extra patch removed in r528258, actually required to
build DEBUG kmod
- Correctly define WITH_DEBUG when enabling the DEBUG option, so
binaries are not stripped
Please note that this new version supports only amd64 CPUs. If you need
to use older hardware please install the legacy ports.
Note that moving VM snapshots across major updates is unsupported, it's
strongly suggested to properly shutdown VMs before upgrading, please
check UPDATING for further details.
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