Congratulations on getting this far with the Haiku guest additions for
VirtualBox!
We'd be willing to integrate the Haiku additions provided it is licensed
under MIT and we can test it and maintain it with reasonable effort for
major Haiku releases.
Since we cannot test every Haiku nightly release with these additions,
if anything in Haiku breaks the additions, we might need
notifications/help/patches to keep them up to date.
Given my past BeOS background & interest I'm willing to be the point of
contact from the VirtualBox team for Haiku and would be fine working
with someone in the Haiku team who has similar commit rights.
I hope there won't be many kBuild related changes (after the initial
patch) as this is maintained in an external repository by my colleague
and is well outside my scope.
I can take a look at the code tomorrow. Do you have an uploaded
patch/diff somewhere where I can easily access it?
Regards & Thanks,
Ram.
On 09/ 6/11 07:09 PM, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
After a summer of hard work, our Google summer of code student completed
his work on the VirtualBox guest additions for Haiku.
Whats done:
* Mouse Integration -- works perfectly
* Shared folders -- works perfectly
* Shared clipboard -- working well
* VirtualBox video -- works, incomplete
* VirtualBox tray application
VirtualBox video:
Mike had every expectation to complete this, however it was discovered
that updating
only certain screen regions wasn't a feature in the app_server (and is
required by
the VirtualBox 2d acceleration layout). The functions in the accelerant
have been written
and stubbed out to make implementing this easy in the future. Mike
pushed on and did
complete the dynamic resizing of the screen.
GCC4:
A gcc4 Haiku build is a requirement as Mike was trying to get gcc2
working up until the end of
the coding session... however was unable to get it working without
crashing.
I have put together two packages to make showing off the code to the
VirtualBox team
and the Haiku community easy...
http://pub.haikufire.com/haiku/optionalpackages/vboxadditions-4.1.15_dev-x86-gcc4-2011-08-23.zip
http://pub.haikufire.com/haiku/optionalpackages/vboxadditions-full-4.1.15_dev-x86-gcc4-2011-08-23.zip
the -full one includes the VirtualBox video driver, it isn't recommended
though as without
2d acceleration, the vesa driver is much faster.
To use these for the moment:
boot a recent gcc4 Haiku nightly image under VirtualBox, unzip in
/boot/, reboot.
http://haiku-files.org/unsupported-builds/x86-gcc4/
I am working to get these included in Haiku as an optional package so
you can run the following
on a gcc4 VirtualBox guest to install the drivers:
installoptionalpackage -a vboxadditions
Mikes VirtualBox branch with the additions can be found here:
https://github.com/scgtrp/vbox-haiku/
To ensure Mike's hard work is maintained, and doesn't get too far out of
sync with the VirtualBox tree...
is anyone willing to take a lead and become a point of contact to try
and get this added to VirtualBox?
We feel the code should be up to the VirtualBox standards. Please let me
know if anyone has any questions
or if I need to complete any tasks.
Thanks!
-- Alex
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