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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
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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"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Identifier "xfce"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0InputDevice "Mouse1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Identifier "Mouse1"
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Driver "vboxmouse"
> EndSection
>
> Tested on FreeBSD 9-stable amd64 host, VirtualBox 4.1.10, FreeBSD 9-stabl=
e
> 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.
--=20
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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