RE: vboxguest on 9.0-BETA

["itou keiki" <ap98nb26u%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi!

I tried running Virtualbox Guest Addition with NetBSD-9.99.56/amd64. The host is Windows 10, Virtualbox-6.1.6. I appreciate the efforts of those involved.

Because the version of xorg-server attached to NetBSD is 1.20.6, a patch like the link below was needed to make GuestAdditions of Virtualbox work. This is the difference against svn revision 83708.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hthsagl61oqhqhu/vbox-r83708-diff.txt.xz?dl=0

* The mouse driver of Xorg.conf uses "ws".
* The clipboard sharing is bidirectional.
* The loadable kernel module is automatically loaded when the VBoxService is started.

With the above settings, things are working for the most part, but there is a small problem. I can select the screen resolution at Display->Virtual Screen 1 in the virtual machine, but it doesn't change. I can still change the screen size with xrandr though.

Phenomenon in the graphics controller VMSVGA
* When vboxvideo is selected in the Driver of Xorg.conf, it does not start with an error.
* Virtual machine resets when running X with 256MB of video memory, OK for 128MB

Phenomenon with graphics controller VBoxVGA/VBoxSVGA
 X server does not start when I select vmware in the Driver of Xorg.conf

Do you have any thoughts or comments?

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SUNAGAWA Keiki


-----Original Message-----
From: current-users-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost <current-users-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost> On Behalf Of Chavdar Ivanov
Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2019 10:10 PM
To: NetBSD current-users <current-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: vboxguest on 9.0-BETA

Hi,

FYI VirtualBox guest cleanly compiles and apparently works under 9.0-BETA; in this case I used fresh svn update:
...
Starting local daemons:12:58:44.643043 main     VBoxService 6.0.97
r80012 (verbosity: 0) netbsd.amd64 (Aug  1 2019 13:54:41) release log
12:58:44.643086 main     Log opened 2019-08-01T12:58:44.643017000Z
12:58:44.643227 main     OS Product: NetBSD
12:58:44.643239 main     OS Release: 9.0_BETA
12:58:44.643266 main     OS Version: NetBSD 9.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Tue
Jul 30 16:52:10 UTC 2019
mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
12:58:44.643288 main     Executable: /usr/local/bin/additions/VBoxService
12:58:44.643294 main     Process ID: 25832
12:58:44.643299 main     Package type: BSD_64BITS_GENERIC
12:58:44.646075 main     6.0.97 r80012 started. Verbose level = 0
.....

LocalConfig.kmk:
...
VBOX_WITHOUT_HARDENING := 1

VBOX_ONLY_ADDITIONS := 1
VBOX_WITH_ADDITION_DRIVERS := 1
VBOX_WITH_X11_ADDITIONS := 1
VBOX_ONLY_ADDITIONS_WITHOUT_RTISOMAKER := 1 ifeq ($(KBUILD_TARGET), netbsd)
TEMPLATE_VBOXGUESTR3EXE_LIBS     = $(TEMPLATE_VBOXR3EXE_LIBS) crypt
endif
......
9.0BETA# /usr/local/bin/additions/VBoxControl version Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions Command Line Management Interface Version 6.0.97
(C) 2008-2019 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

6.0.97r80012
9.0BETA# ps ax | grep VBox
  190 ?     Is   0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/additions/VBoxClient --clipboard
 7090 ?     Isl  0:00.16 /usr/local/bin/additions/VBoxService
--pidfile /var/run/VBoxService.pid
24395 ?     Is   0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/additions/VBoxClient --display
25517 ?     Il   0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/additions/VBoxClient --clipboard
26513 ?     I    0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/additions/VBoxClient --display
 1023 pts/3 O+   0:00.00 grep --color=auto --exclude=.bzr
--exclude=CVS --exclude=.git --exclude=.hg --exclude=.svn VBox



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