Frank Mehnert wrote:
On Tuesday 01 June 2010, Joe Auty wrote:
Do the guest additions in general, and particularly the FreeBSD guest
additions offer anything in the way of functionality that is not related
to GUI operation? Do the guest additions handle time syncing?
Yes. See the user manual section 4 for a description what benefit
the guest additions provide.
What functionality is missing from the FreeBSD guest additions?
That's a question for the FreeBSD guys.
If so, will the FreeBSD port:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additi
ons/ work in both OSE and the commercial version? Do the guest additions
versions and release version have to correspond for this to work properly?
They will work on both, the OSE version and the PUEL version as both
provide the same interface. And the interface is backward-compatible,
that is, older guest additions will work on never VBox versions. Never
additions should also work on older VBox releases although the latter
is not 100% guaranteed.
Thanks for the clarification! Is it generally wise to comb over the
changelog to see what sorts of changes have been made to the Guest
Additions that might warrant an update, or will there be some sort of
automatic notification?
Kind regards,
Frank
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