From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 17:00:59 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A3A2FC6 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:00:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.seidata.com (mail.seidata.com [IPv6:2607:ff40::10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BEEDC26A9 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from prometheus (prometheus.seidata.com [IPv6:2607:ff40:1001::3:1415]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.seidata.com (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s5GH0s1q032580 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:00:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@rsle.net) Message-ID: <539F22C1.4000306@rsle.net> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:00:49 -0400 From: "R. Scott Evans" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual Box Mouse? References: <20140615220519.GA91726@neutralgood.org> <20140615231128.GA49715@192-168-1-10.tpgi.com.au> <539F0C27.50301@rsle.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1, HELO_NO_DOMAIN,TW_XF autolearn=disabled version=3.4.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on milter.seidata.com X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.1 at mailer.seidata.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:00:59 -0000 On 06/16/14 12:28, Chris Maness wrote: > Thanks, Warren. I forgot the "enable" part of hal_enable and > dbus_enable. It is working fine now. It would be nice to have a > higher screen res for the guest though. It is very small, but that is > a topic for a different thread. > > Thanks, > Chris Maness Different thread... maybe, but to provide a quick answer to it - this is where installing the virtualbox-ose-additions come in. With the additions installed on the guest I can do fullscreen and still don't need to create a static xorg.conf. -scott > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Warren Block wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, R. Scott Evans wrote: >> >>> The question that has yet to be asked... are we talking about enabling the >>> mouse in X windows or in console? >>> >>> For console all you need is 'moused_enable="YES"' in your /etc/rc.conf. >>> Enabling it across all local terminals doesn't work well for me as the Mac's >>> F keys don't work (for me) in VirtualBox. >>> >>> For X windows, all I added was the hald_enable=YES and dbus_enable=YES to >>> my /etc/rc.conf. I did not need to install virtualbox additions or any >>> xorg.conf. I just did a fresh install (via pkg) of xorg & xfce4 on a >>> FreeBSD 10-R-p4 amd64 install in vbox on my mid 2011 iMac running 10.9.3 to >>> verify this. >> >> >> That's a good point. The VBox mouse drivers give a seamless mouse, so focus >> is passed from the host to the VM window and back when the mouse pointer is >> moved. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"