On a guest gentoo virtualbox vm: - host + guest virtualbox versions 5.2.32 - dbus started - bidirectional clipboard sharing enabled from the GUI - app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions running - i3 window manager used Few issues here: 1- the autostart .desktop file is irrelevent for i3 and not deployed after emerge 2- the clipboard sharing doesn't work, unless VBoxClient --clipboard is manually run. 3- using the provided default xorg.conf file prevents prevents startx from running (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1103208-highlight-virtualbox.html) 4- it could be good to check -during GA emerge- whenever dbus is started and added to default runlevel
Created attachment 597470 [details] Xorg log of provided xorg.conf file startx fails with the xorg.conf file provided by virtualbox-guest-additions.
Created attachment 597472 [details] Xorg log of startx without xorg.conf config file startx succeeds when xorg guesses its own config. modesettings seems to be used
The recommended way to run is now to use VMSVGA with the vmwgfx kernel module and the vmware xorg module. And I think modesetting works too. The vboxvideo driver is deprecated, x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo has already been removed, so I will remove the kernel module from app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions together with the example xorg.conf.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0ad7087efcfbd8f0825ba8c46ef4db7550a6e495 commit 0ad7087efcfbd8f0825ba8c46ef4db7550a6e495 Author: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2025-01-24 17:08:54 +0000 Commit: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2025-01-24 17:13:40 +0000 app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions: remove vboxvideo Remove deprecated vboxvideo module. Also remove the example xorg.conf file that was using it. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/701088 Signed-off-by: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org> ...-additions-7.1.6-disable-vboxvideo-module.patch | 19 ++ .../virtualbox-guest-additions-7.0.24-r1.ebuild | 285 ++++++++++++++++++++ .../virtualbox-guest-additions-7.1.6-r1.ebuild | 286 +++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 590 insertions(+)
