From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 1 18:01:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C4F1065675 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mjs@rakupottery.org.uk) Received: from lon1-post-1.mail.demon.net (lon1-post-1.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688D28FC21 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mjs@rakupottery.org.uk) Received: from rakuman.demon.co.uk ([80.177.154.53] helo=rakuba.rakupottery.org.uk) by lon1-post-1.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) id 1MM47a-0001xy-XR for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:01:26 +0000 Message-ID: <4A4BA476.1020301@rakupottery.org.uk> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:01:26 +0100 From: Martin Smith User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org References: <20090611194557.GC98175@bsdcrew.de> <4A473976.6030807@rakupottery.org.uk> <20090629131534.2d764f72@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20090629131534.2d764f72@ernst.jennejohn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:01:28 -0000 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:35:50 +0100 > Martin Smith wrote: > >> Martin Wilke wrote: > [snip what miwi wrote] >> Well ,I have got it up and running on a stable of 26 June, managed to >> set up a vdi, no problem, but it will not see the cd drive. >> It (vbox) says the cd drive is always secondary master, but I only have >> one ata channel so it is primary master. The dropdown list just does >> not drop down. >> Is there a workaround for this, or have I missed something stupid? >> > > I saw this too and had to start hald in order for VirtualBox to see the > real DVD/CD drives, even though I'd compiled VirtualBox without hald > support. > > BTW I'm running -current, but the problem probably has the same solution > under -stable. Well hald is already running, no problem there, I also have a current box which I am just bringing up to date, I will try it on that later in the week. Cheers -- Martin