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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:08:26 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, martinko <gamato@users.sf.net>
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox and HAL / D-Bus / PulseAudio (?)
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001131556250.14723@thor.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <055e22705d8b630023fc8056fb93c533.squirrel@webmail.itac.at>
References:  <hildvj$tmj$1@ger.gmane.org> <055e22705d8b630023fc8056fb93c533.squirrel@webmail.itac.at>

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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:

> On Wed, January 13, 2010 10:29 pm, martinko wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> As I do run D-Bus but do not run HAL nor PulseAudio on my system I'm 
>> wondering what are the options and consequences :
>> - port option DBUS=on and rc.conf option DBUS=YES but without HAL
>> - port option DBUS=off .. what do I lose ?
>
> You need HAL and DBus for CD/DVD Host access.

Actually, HAL is not needed by VirtualBox (at least the OSE version).  I 
just verified that the guest automatically detects a CD I put into the 
drive.  I use WITHOUT_HAL globally in building ports.  It may be needed 
for USB (non-OSE) support, but I am not sure.

Sean
-- 
scf@FreeBSD.org



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