VirtualBox additions (was Re: Installing, then installing CDE)

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2026, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 13:09:37 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> > I suggest this:
> >
> > https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/virtual-box-guest-tools/
> >
> > Is a priority.
>
> All of that work was commited to the VirtualBox repository (where it
> belongs) ages ago.
>
>  https://github.com/VirtualBox/virtualbox/blob/main/src/VBox/Additions/common/VBoxGuest/VBoxGuest-netbsd.c
>
> But there is no pkgsrc package that builds it.

It would be very good to have such a package. Looking at the FreeBSD port, 
it looks rather a complicated build process (or at least it does to 
someone not familiar with the VirtualBox build process).
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions-72/Makefile

I took at look at the WIP virtualbox-svn package to see if there were any 
more familiar hints and that Makefile certainly looks cleaner than 
FreeBSD's. However, both rely on kBuild which is also only in WIP. I've so 
far failed to get kBuild to build.

--
Stephen