From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 6 11:44:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0791BDB7 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:44:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@code.davidpcaldwell.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x235.google.com (mail-ie0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36711B30 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f181.google.com with SMTP id x14so6659203ief.40 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:44:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=gAs78fpCBXdRcnzPfMdz1LGUyvstKH4agipINUTLun8=; b=mCzTa9nk11nKhGN/a+y8OLshfPXhuIOp63cwoCjgSJxY3EZsmbFZCKKcx4OHVGV27f /Ozi8aPLf1Kw69UQPI3cCZoeU99ODamex8U4P2u3sww8ayrE1uWYXk4traiZZnt+sZRY DCIFd2z6ohmaZa1UXTk2x9jzj8++smdBMvufj6ZHzXVMYbZYHD4XJqwheD9eZ4VrcqCE Xe/dALeiW3dES4Yldz6X3o6plGVOCvbmebrxRXl5q6ej6v08QbCM4xflpWU3rp8WlyOq 5kZNWlymzEu2bvEjG6IQWGZ84fhHJDDLawSoZbS8ARHLMcPAVQHc5MF1RDUG2xsf42au xKEg== X-Received: by 10.50.176.202 with SMTP id ck10mr5507885igc.9.1370519066469; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:44:26 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.64.24.166 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 04:44:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [74.97.25.177] From: "David P. Caldwell" Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 07:44:05 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: VirtualBox and HAL instructions from the handbook To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnxIttPaiq+8IFFdXNA33AhG1hvY1VRHwDPbxepNQT9oKZDDkzghOLtnyuyVAKOp/vxvt0k X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:44:27 -0000 The FreeBSD Handbook indicates at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html that a /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/90-vboxguest.fdi should be created by copying it from /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/90-vboxguest.fdi. My install scripts performed these steps when installing under 9.0 but under 9.1-RELEASE the second file is missing. I'm currently installing from binary packages. 1. Is this file still necessary? 2. Does its absence indicate anything went wrong with my install, or was it removed from the guest additions by mistake, or ...? -- David Caldwell http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/