VirtualBox-4.1.10: Mouse gets trapped in the FreeBSD-9.0 guest with additions installed

[Kevin Oberman]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>
>> I've just verified that the additions haven't regressed since 4.0.
>> So I've installed 4.1.10 additions on PC-BSD 9.0 and X11, mouse and
>> clipboard sharing work the same as before.
>>
>> To be fair seamless mouse did never work but I'm not sure if that is
>> because of our old Xorg stack or an oversight in the additions.
>
>
> Seamless mouse does work, but AFAIK requires an xorg.conf:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>        Identifier "xfce"
>        InputDevice "Mouse1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier "Mouse1"
>        Driver "vboxmouse"
> EndSection
>
> Tested on FreeBSD 9-stable amd64 host, VirtualBox 4.1.10, FreeBSD 9-stable
> i386 guest, virtualbox-ose-additions 4.1.10.
>
> That's for an xserver without HAL, maybe with HAL it will autodetect.
>
> The first couple of clicks after startup seem to get lost, but otherwise it
> works.

Works for me, but only in X. In console, the guest options don't seem
to do much.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com