Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:16:52 -0600 From: John Aten <welcome.to.eye.o.rama@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: erwin.pacua@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working in Virtual Box VM Message-ID: <14211C2C-773E-4F81-B56A-718944B9890B@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1512070713510.49007@wonkity.com> References: <010EFC12-FD25-4A04-B042-9B0C95478C03@gmail.com> <n42s3d$ujr$1@ger.gmane.org> <2607C7BB-43F7-429F-B311-924A797CE185@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1512070713510.49007@wonkity.com>
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On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, John Aten wrote: >=20 >> I would love to provide the output of pkg info | grep 'xf86-input-' , = but unfortunately I totally destroyed the vm I was working in. When I = first tried to install guest additions from ports, I got an error that = said the source code was unavailable. When I got the source through SVN, = I messed up and got a different version than the one I was running. I = then installed the guest additions, so it appears that this messed = things up somehow, unless I made some other error. I followed Colin = House's suggestion to buildworld & buildkernel, following the = instructions in the handbook, but somehow messed everything up; after = that the VM wouldn't boot at all, so I decided to just start over. >=20 > Probably an error with mergemaster. That could be repaired, given = time. >=20 > As far as VirtualBox, yes, the guest additions kernel module needs to = be built against the running code. Once that is done, the Handbook = section on VirtualBox shows X configuration: > = https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-= guest-virtualbox-guest-additions.htm These are the instructions I followed.=20 > The Handbook general Xorg configuration section has been rewritten = recently: > = https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html I did miss this one; I'll take a look at it when I get to setting up X = on my new vm. Thanks for the info and links. John=
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