Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:05:15 -0500 From: "Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox 4.1.2 r73507 Message-ID: <4E6B98CB.4040503@centurytel.net> In-Reply-To: <1314594624.5517.4.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> References: <4E5AF7FC.30200@centurytel.net> <1314594624.5517.4.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11>
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On 08/29/2011 12:10 AM, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: You only need this if you really need one of the 4.1 guest additions features. They are compatible with newer guests. The latest guest additions for 4.1.2 are availabe as cft too. But you also need to update devel/kBuild from the cft first. http://home.bluelife.at/ports/virtualbox-cft-20110825.tar.gz < snip > > On Mo., 29. Aug. 2011 04:22:52 CEST, Michael D. Norwick <mnorwick@centurytel.net> wrote: > < snip > Dell Latitude D630 laptop Kubuntu 'natty' host Virtualbox 4.1.2 downloaded from Oracle's site. Guest Additions from virtualbox-cft-20110825.tar.gz FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 dvd.iso downloaded 08/24/2011 installed as the only guest. hald and dbus enabled in rc.conf the correct /etc/hal/fdi/policy/90vbox*.fdi per the FreeBSD wiki moused both enabled and disabled in rc.conf makes no difference in X behaviour I am using a USB keyboard and mouse but X doesn't start correctly with them unplugged either. I've been frustrated getting Xorg to start properly. I used the suggestions provided in the previous response and I can get X to start but the mouse is frozen. I am using; exec /usr/local/bin/gnome-session in the ~/.xinitrc Enabling gdm in rc.conf starts a graphical login but again the mouse is frozen along with the keyboard and I cannot select the user or type. I have commented out the statement in rc.conf after testing so $>xinit and $>startx still exhibit the - no mouse - behaviour. I rebuilt hald and dbus from ports. They installed without error but the locked-up mouse issue remains. Sorry to not post the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log but, the silly thing just froze up on boot and I cannot access the VM to login. I will post it when I am able to get to a login prompt. Maybe I should just install FreeBSD 9.0 as the host OS on this laptop and use Linux as the guest for the few applications I need? I've tried to avoid because there's a lot of stuff to restore from backup but I might have to just do it. Thank You, Michael
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