From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Dec 7 14:18:41 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B72E9B7176 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2015 14:18:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D0FD1B02 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2015 14:18:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id tB7EIXMa054731 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 7 Dec 2015 07:18:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id tB7EIX1F054728; Mon, 7 Dec 2015 07:18:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 07:18:33 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: John Aten cc: erwin.pacua@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working in Virtual Box VM In-Reply-To: <2607C7BB-43F7-429F-B311-924A797CE185@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <010EFC12-FD25-4A04-B042-9B0C95478C03@gmail.com> <2607C7BB-43F7-429F-B311-924A797CE185@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 07 Dec 2015 07:18:33 -0700 (MST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:18:41 -0000 On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, John Aten wrote: > 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. Probably an error with mergemaster. That could be repaired, given time. 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.html The Handbook general Xorg configuration section has been rewritten recently: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html