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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:23:08 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        mailinglist <mailinglist@ucwv.edu>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mouse not working on virtual box VM
Message-ID:  <6201873e1002180823u585c93a1rfdef88d62d76b508@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <93C575B79E9B01449EBBB084032BC570123208B75D@mail.ucwv.edu>

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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, mailinglist <mailinglist@ucwv.edu> wrote:

> I've successfully got X Windows up and running on a Virtual Box VM on
> FreeBSD 8, however it isn't detecting my mouse.  Any idea on how I can make
> that happen?  As far as I know, there are no guest addition for virtual box
> for FreeBSD......of course that's assuming that would even help.  It might
> not.....
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Mouse for freebsd guest works fine here.  There is a guest additions for a
freebsd guest, see the docs.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox

You also need to setup the guest as you would a dedicated host if you wanted
the physical host to have mouse support.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-post.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html

-- 
Adam Vande More



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