GSoC Introduction: VirtualBox Guest Additions

Hello. I’m Mike and I’ll be porting part of the VirtualBox guest additions to Haiku. My full proposal is here, but briefly, the features I plan to port include:

• Mouse pointer integration
• Shared folders
• Shared clipboard
• Time synchronization
• An improved video driver
• Guest control (executing commands on the guest from the host)
• Guest properties

During the community bonding period I plan to spend a bit of time reading more code and discussing with the developers to learn more about how things work in both Haiku and VirtualBox. I also plan to play with mmu_man’s patch to get it to work with the latest versions of VirtualBox and Haiku so that I have a working base to start from when the coding period starts.