[Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:35:50 +0100
Martin Smith <mjs at 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.

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Gary Jennejohn