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Subject: Re: virtualbox
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On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Chip Camden wrote:

> When running Xorg under VirtualBox, I had to add the following to
> xorg.conf to get the keyboard and mouse to respond:
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> 	Option	"AutoAddDevices" "off"
> EndSection

As with a physical machine, that is only needed to disable hal input 
device detection.  One of my FreeBSD 8 VMs has dbus and hal enabled, 
virtualbox-ose-additions installed, and runs without an xorg.conf.