VirtualBox and HAL / D-Bus / PulseAudio (?)

[Bernhard Froehlich]

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.

> - port option PULSEAUDIO=on .. what would I gain ?

PulseAudio did not work until the 3.1.2 portupdate because that includes a
patch to correctly build pulseaudio support. What you gain? You can use
pulseaudio - but when you do not enable it it always falls back to OSS
which is probably fine for almost anybody.

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