Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:01:26 +0100 From: Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6 Message-ID: <4A4BA476.1020301@rakupottery.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090629131534.2d764f72@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20090611194557.GC98175@bsdcrew.de> <4A473976.6030807@rakupottery.org.uk> <20090629131534.2d764f72@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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Gary Jennejohn wrote: > 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. Well hald is already running, no problem there, I also have a current box which I am just bringing up to date, I will try it on that later in the week. Cheers -- Martin
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