VBoxManage and Guest Additions 5.x.y: Can't communicate with FreeBSD Guests

[Jonas Almroth]

I've been trying to get FreeBSD to work with VBoxManage for a while (in fact for several years, since 9.3).

This is the result of testing VirtualBox 5.2.6 on Ubuntu with FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64 as guest.

$ VBoxManage guestcontrol freebsd-11.1-amd64 --username root --password 2Hard2Crack stat /tmp --verbose
Creating guest session as user 'root'...
Waiting for guest session to start...
VBoxManage: error: The specified user was not able to logon on guest
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005), component GuestSessionWrap, interface IGuestSession, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "WaitForArray(ComSafeArrayAsInParam(aSessionWaitFlags), 30 * 1000, &enmWaitResult)" at line 938 of file VBoxManageGuestCtrl.cpp
Closing guest session ...

Guest Additions were installed with pkg:

[root@freebsd ~]# pkg install -y virtualbox-ose-additions
[root@freebsd ~]# sysrc vboxguest_enable="YES"
vboxguest_enable: NO -> YES
[root@freebsd ~]# sysrc vboxservice_enable="YES"
vboxservice_enable: NO -> YES
[root@freebsd ~]# reboot

Guest Additions kernel module is loaded in Guest:

[root@freebsd ~]# VBoxService --version
5.2.4r119758
[root@freebsd ~]# kldstat|grep vbox
 3    1 0xffffffff8221f000 2eacb    vboxguest.ko

[Paul Hoffman]

Has anyone looked at this ticket? I have just started using a FreeBSD 12 as a VM and have exactly the same problem. To be clear: I am sure that the user and password being given are correct because I can SSH to the VM. I am using virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11-5.2.22_2.

Is this a bug in the pkg, such as it requires a particular user?

[matpe]

If you look at the source code for virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11, specifically the function rtCheckCredentials in the file process-creation-posix.cpp, you can see that there are no authentication code at all for FreeBSD. It simply returns VERR_AUTHENTICATION_FAILURE for any username and password.

Someone has to write authentication code for FreeBSD.

[Graham Perrin]

Please retry with 6.1.18.

​https://www.freshports.org/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions/#history