Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:42:23 +0100 (CET) From: "Bernhard Froehlich" <decke@bluelife.at> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> Subject: Re: VirtualBox and HAL / D-Bus / PulseAudio (?) Message-ID: <f0689faf098027e4e54d7569f21a7355.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001131556250.14723@thor.farley.org> References: <hildvj$tmj$1@ger.gmane.org> <055e22705d8b630023fc8056fb93c533.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001131556250.14723@thor.farley.org>
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On Wed, January 13, 2010 11:08 pm, Sean C. Farley wrote: > 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. You're absolutely right. VBox does not need HAL anymore since r23537 that's about vbox 3.1.x. http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/23537 -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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