Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:29:47 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox-4.1.10: Mouse gets trapped in the FreeBSD-9.0 guest with additions installed Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tiHngtwbuEKfrm1BytXZG_Q9=fr6obcsPifWnuHiRFbA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204050718570.81444@wonkity.com> References: <4F77493C.2090600@rawbw.com> <4F7BAC02.6000807@rawbw.com> <6326363a4a567af01670902bbe01e20f@bluelife.at> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1204050718570.81444@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Warren Block <wblock@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. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558@gmail.comhelp
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