Kenneth Jacker wrote: > sl> Chapter 4. Guest Additions > sl> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html > > That chapter, I believe, describes how to install/use "guest additions", > instead of how to *write* them. > > I want to modify an OS so that it can use "additions" under VBox. > For a starter, there is source code available for all additions of all OS-es supported : http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Additions
There are also Vbox Forum http://forums.virtualbox.org/ and Developer mailing list to include yourself in, search and ask: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Mailing_lists http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-dev/ As described here: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch10.html there is an PDF Document fith Virtualbox internal documentation inside Virtualbox Software Development Kit (SDK). That requires registering Sun/Oracle account: http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxsdkdownload.html (http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/3.1.4/VirtualBoxSDK-3.1.4-57640.zip) Virtualbox-OSE full source code: Currently http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.4/VirtualBox-3.1.4-OSE.tar.bz2 Checking out with svn: Checking out from our Subversion server. * ** svn co http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk vbox This is the current development code, which is not necessarily stable. *Note:* The repository was recently moved. If svn update aborts with an error message regarding a moved repository, then do svn switch --relocate \ http://virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk \ http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
