FreeBSD, VBox, mouse integration

[asf8g 9hf32]

Hello,

I'm using VirtualBox. Host OS is FreeBSD, guest OS is FreeBSD(amd64) too.
I'd like to integrate mouse from guest and host(I don't want to use right
ctrl to free mouse from guest).
I'm using vbox guest additions to do it. I have loaded drivers(vboxguest
and vboxvideo).My rc.conf has lines

vboxguest_enable="YES"vboxservice_enable="YES"

but mouse isn't integrated.

Could you tell me what to do to integrate mouse ?

Thanks,

Lukas
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[Alexandre]

On Tuesday, May 21, 2013, asf8g 9hf32 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using VirtualBox. Host OS is FreeBSD, guest OS is FreeBSD(amd64) too.
> I'd like to integrate mouse from guest and host(I don't want to use right
> ctrl to free mouse from guest).
> I'm using vbox guest additions to do it. I have loaded drivers(vboxguest
> and vboxvideo).My rc.conf has lines
>
> vboxguest_enable="YES"vboxservice_enable="YES"
>
> but mouse isn't integrated.
>
> Could you tell me what to do to integrate mouse ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lukas

> Hi Lukas,


In your VM, have you installed VBox additional tool from ports/packages in
addition to the lines in /etc/rc.conf ?
You must use the same version of VirtualBox on both host and guest.

Kind regards,
Alexandre

[asf8g 9hf32]

Well, I don't know much about installation. My professor at university has
ordered me to test mouse integration(it hasn't worked). So I need to fix
it.
The only thing I know is that he has used guest additions. I have 2
scripts. The first loads drivers (vboxguest and vboxvideo). The second is
about vboxservice.
Loading drivers works fine, I've checked it using "kldstat".

I've found on Web that I need to add this 2 lines to rc.conf, but they have
been there already.
I have no idea what to do next.

What do you mean with the same version of VirtualBox? Do I have to have the
same version on my host and guest even if i dont use vbox on guest?

Lukas


2013/5/21 Alexandre <axe...@ymail.com>

[Alexandre]

Lukas,

I mean that the host must get installed the same virtualbox version (
http://www.freshports.org/emulators/virtualbox-ose/) than the virtualbox
addition tools inside the VM (
http://www.freshports.org/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions/).
You can check the version of Virtualbox installed using this command:
% pkg_info | grep virtualbox

Kind regards,
Alexandre

[asf8g 9hf32]

Ok, so when I used
% pkg_info | grep virtualbox
on my host or guest machine I receive output: "pkg_info: no packages
installed". But we have network booting there, root directories are copied
from other machine, so when I used this command on this main machine, the
output was:

virtualbox-ose-4.2.12 A general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
virtualbox-ose-additions-4.2.12_1 VirtualBox additions for FreeBSD guests
virtualbox-ose-kmod-4.2.12 VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD


When I started vboxservice on guest machine I got output:

OS Version: FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0: Sat May 11
OS Service Pack: FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0: Sat May 11
Package type: BSD_64BIST_GENERIC(OSE)
4.2.12_OSE r84980 started. Verbose level = 0


Is it fine ? What to do now ?

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:25 AM, asf8g 9hf32 <machi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using VirtualBox. Host OS is FreeBSD, guest OS is FreeBSD(amd64) too.
> I'd like to integrate mouse from guest and host(I don't want to use right
> ctrl to free mouse from guest).
> I'm using vbox guest additions to do it. I have loaded drivers(vboxguest
> and vboxvideo).My rc.conf has lines
>
> vboxguest_enable="YES"vboxservice_enable="YES"
>
> but mouse isn't integrated.
>
> Could you tell me what to do to integrate mouse ?

https://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox#Installing_Guest_Additions_for_FreeBSD_guests

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Adam Vande More