VirtualBox 4.1.2 r73507

[Michael D. Norwick]

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


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> On Mo., 29. Aug. 2011 04:22:52 CEST, Michael D. Norwick <mnorwick at centurytel.net> wrote:
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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