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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:15:34 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6
Message-ID:  <20090629131534.2d764f72@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A473976.6030807@rakupottery.org.uk>
References:  <20090611194557.GC98175@bsdcrew.de> <4A473976.6030807@rakupottery.org.uk>

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On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:35:50 +0100
Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk> wrote:

> Martin Wilke wrote:
[snip what miwi wrote]
> Well ,I have got it up and running on a stable of 26 June, managed to
> set up a vdi, no problem, but it will not see the cd drive.
> It (vbox) says the cd drive is always secondary master, but I only have
> one ata channel so it is primary master. The dropdown list just does
> not drop down.
> Is there a workaround for this, or have I missed something stupid?
> 

I saw this too and had to start hald in order for VirtualBox to see the
real DVD/CD drives, even though I'd compiled VirtualBox without hald
support.

BTW I'm running -current, but the problem probably has the same solution
under -stable.

---
Gary Jennejohn



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