From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Dec 8 01:16:56 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7BC29D304D for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2015 01:16:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from welcome.to.eye.o.rama@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qk0-x231.google.com (mail-qk0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c09::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A780B1F4C for ; Tue, 8 Dec 2015 01:16:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from welcome.to.eye.o.rama@gmail.com) Received: by qkht125 with SMTP id t125so7814160qkh.3 for ; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:16:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to; bh=idFB5MY4wjZFmx6WXt3qkbSgfDywtXG0vf7SONEcICA=; b=N1L9jccBYMnV6KCFq/WxJ3yUgNuh482W8Kd0fzpFQ4Sg+w7SZv2/h7qlN6+n7B1YV6 RgXJnrRpbSjQ1UItQ8NNrhheZ5e6uo4TUWTemMoxAkyLe5k/mQq8mmj+hm+3ZnQPows9 pgsn0izajL0gOlw2ul5ohAYfcukVxhqZowuJ9TN8k8AgE5fq5BQTyhznvma+oHbQmPSp 3wr8BnygHJpQr9F23n/TNwfq/Hp5qVJSMl1JRYIe0lfJI9aVwDe2rWCC/jDnyaR4pWSy P+EuRPrHIN4SZsdPMFDoBQz3dYvZ4LTpniVITTrA9dBC5lWGwXHfXd8ftIjA6YCUalTK O9kg== X-Received: by 10.129.154.86 with SMTP id r83mr463126ywg.149.1449537415898; Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:16:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2602:30a:2c86:1740:3615:9eff:fe1f:8316? ([2602:30a:2c86:1740:3615:9eff:fe1f:8316]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v23sm613009ywa.30.2015.12.07.17.16.54 (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:16:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Mouse & Keyboard not working in Virtual Box VM Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: John Aten In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:16:52 -0600 Cc: erwin.pacua@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <14211C2C-773E-4F81-B56A-718944B9890B@gmail.com> References: <010EFC12-FD25-4A04-B042-9B0C95478C03@gmail.com> <2607C7BB-43F7-429F-B311-924A797CE185@gmail.com> To: Warren Block X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:16:57 -0000 On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, John Aten wrote: >=20 >> I would love to provide the output of pkg info | grep 'xf86-input-' , = but unfortunately I totally destroyed the vm I was working in. When I = first tried to install guest additions from ports, I got an error that = said the source code was unavailable. When I got the source through SVN, = I messed up and got a different version than the one I was running. I = then installed the guest additions, so it appears that this messed = things up somehow, unless I made some other error. I followed Colin = House's suggestion to buildworld & buildkernel, following the = instructions in the handbook, but somehow messed everything up; after = that the VM wouldn't boot at all, so I decided to just start over. >=20 > Probably an error with mergemaster. That could be repaired, given = time. >=20 > As far as VirtualBox, yes, the guest additions kernel module needs to = be built against the running code. Once that is done, the Handbook = section on VirtualBox shows X configuration: > = https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-= guest-virtualbox-guest-additions.htm These are the instructions I followed.=20 > The Handbook general Xorg configuration section has been rewritten = recently: > = https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html I did miss this one; I'll take a look at it when I get to setting up X = on my new vm. Thanks for the info and links. John=