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From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, martinko <gamato@users.sf.net>
Subject: Re: VirtualBox and HAL / D-Bus / PulseAudio (?)
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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:

> On Wed, January 13, 2010 10:29 pm, martinko wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> As I do run D-Bus but do not run HAL nor PulseAudio on my system I'm 
>> wondering what are the options and consequences :
>> - port option DBUS=on and rc.conf option DBUS=YES but without HAL
>> - port option DBUS=off .. what do I lose ?
>
> You need HAL and DBus for CD/DVD Host access.

Actually, HAL is not needed by VirtualBox (at least the OSE version).  I 
just verified that the guest automatically detects a CD I put into the 
drive.  I use WITHOUT_HAL globally in building ports.  It may be needed 
for USB (non-OSE) support, but I am not sure.

Sean
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