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.
VirtualBox Guest Additions are installed.
To enable the required services:
# sysrc vboxguest_enable="YES"
# sysrc vboxservice_enable="YES"
To start the services, restart the system.
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 may be inappropriate
where legacy Guest Additions are installed.
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*: 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)
emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11-legacy: Fix version numbers going
backwards
Put back original PORTREVISION value.
Fixes: f5957f13490eee2d6764f40e74a45700f0c8ac11
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>
- 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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