Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 23:49:28 +0200 From: Norbert Beckmann <nb@informatik.uni-bremen.de> To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox + FreeBSD 9-STABLE == Frozen Ethernet Message-ID: <51882568.4080402@informatik.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <1601E2D3-DF60-4CCB-9F92-9AD05BCBCB10@hub.org> References: <1601E2D3-DF60-4CCB-9F92-9AD05BCBCB10@hub.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090304020008090607020503 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To Marc G. Fournier I do not think it's an issue with VirtualBox. I am running VirtualBox under Solaris. And I never had problems with it. Guests: ubuntu, Windows 7, Linux Mint, FreeBSD, Chrome OS. But the people of VirtualBox themselves state that Windows is somewhat delicate (don't remember whether they meant as guest or as host, I think both). Which would be comprehensible, because Windows has never become a real multi user / multi process system as Unix was by birth (nearly). I can neither help concerning the freezing Ethernet nor did I encounter similar things (as far as I remember). But i avail myself of the opportunity of re-posting an issue with just FreeBSD and VirtualBox. Sorry! I'm running FreeBSD 9.1 in VirtualBox. All is fine, but I cannot run the Gnome Desktop, because the mouse in inoperable. I already posted this problem on 03/03/13 and 03/04/13, but never got an answer. Here is a summary of my original posts again: Environment: (Host OS: Solaris 11.1) VirtualBox 4.6.2 (r82870) [4.6.12 now] Guest: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE (#0 r243825) Gnome 2.32 I did a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.1 in VirtualBox. After capturing the mouse pointer on black screen, copy/paste works too. Then I installed Gnome 2.32, following all the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#full-gnome. (I compiled.) Then I installed the guest additions, following all the instructions at https://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox, chapter "Installing Guest Additions for FreeBSD guests". After the make, I called X -configure and moved a modified copy to /etc/X11/xorg.conf as proposed, and performed all the other things mentioned at that page. Problem: Mouse is not operational in FreeBSD: Gnome disabled and calling X, I get a black screen, the mouse pointer disappears, and I also cannot capture it manually. Gnome enabled, I get a proper gnome login screen after boot, the mouse pointer is there, but does not affect something. The movement and the position of the mouse pointer is even recognized by the login screen and thus Gnome. This is obvious because these small pop-ups like "Log in as .." appear when the mouse pointer moves over them. Hence, the sole functionality missing is the communication between Gnome and the mouse buttons. Extra attempts (no success / no harm): in /etc/rc.conf: enabling hald, dbus, mouse. in /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/ in addition to 90-vboxguest.fdi, adding 10-mouse-sysmouse.fdi from /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor. Attachment: /etc/X11/xorg.conf followed by /etc/rc.conf (both seemingly completely ok). Any ideas? Sorry for posting a question on a question, but after more than a month of silence I'm daring it. Norbert --------------090304020008090607020503 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="FreeBSDconfig" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FreeBSDconfig" $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "record" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "dri2" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "vboxmouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Monitor Model" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional Identifier "Card0" Driver "vboxvideo" VendorName "InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH" BoardName "VirtualBox Graphics Adapter" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection $ $ cat /etc/rc.conf hostname="" ifconfig_em0="DHCP" sshd_enable="YES" moused_enable="YES" ntpd_enable="YES" # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable dumpdev="AUTO" ##### Changes after installation vboxguest_enable="YES" vboxservice_enable="YES" # vbox's timesync: default: enabled, conflicts with ntpd (see above) vboxservice_flags="--disable-timesync" # begin extra --- hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" mouse_enable="YES" # end extra ----- #gnome_enable="YES" $ --------------090304020008090607020503--
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