Re: Installing, then installing CDE

On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 13:09:37 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:

> I tried to enable `portmap` from /etc/rc.d but there was nothing
> related in there.  I installed it, and it installed something.  It
> did not help.

"portmapper" is just the traditional name for rpcbind(8)


> I suggest this:
> 
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/virtual-box-guest-tools/
> 
> Is a priority.
> 
> Someone tried a decade back:
> 
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2014/08/20/msg003310.html

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 _looks_ like using the `reboot` command is *not safe* in
> Virtualbox.  Once I made sure to always use `shutdown -r now` it did
> not happen again.

Using the the reboot from multiuser _is_ not safe (in general).
reboot(8) manual explicitly says that in CAVEATS.  It's been like that
for decades and it's common knowledge, really.


-uwe