From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 6 13:19:39 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 333C32AE for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:19:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@code.davidpcaldwell.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22a.google.com (mail-ie0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22a]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DC410DD for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:19:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id e14so7217843iej.29 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:19:38 -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:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=rOyTYCg5HdJpjXa4oxPkmaYIVFeAom1oCv9DxJ5+Zw0=; b=BXlYMooE927Zwa2Vgm/Q5Wk5rdaNF0SYUBcSPShnhOD63vXdHn78bFXumGfyRO89jF z2ZvruYS6wSwX9NmVqmwFWmeuYmWeSTMPqxWhiB8qhuo4B93KHf3LX+sffGiBB5jqW1T c4Ulf6io7Ep//JL4exy5hydgN0lMtXulTJ1JM9Hty3kELn7n1Tp4Nfiy2mcxG55CKjEm p7la4m/pAL/MDZUTHYEux8WQKbSHHSvkMHzEJtA6MLhzB/qdiPZOMr09JYaK33m1n0il Ix98FsN5MSzgvPYs2VdDZ5RwUHAEh03guunOXzIVyGw45314RTXGHxl3XJbRK/y2QmXM +RiQ== X-Received: by 10.50.61.141 with SMTP id p13mr5708839igr.9.1370524778585; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:19:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.64.24.166 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 06:19:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [74.97.25.177] In-Reply-To: References: From: "David P. Caldwell" Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 09:19:18 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: VirtualBox and HAL instructions from the handbook To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn/2Thf1ECmZ8ES8NZC3Z6vhAxjhXudttetcV/KxU4QLJB+QQEdKkzIyFdSuyunERBinx+b 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 13:19:39 -0000 I can confirm it is necessary for mouse capture to work properly. If it's not installed to /usr/local/share/hal/... by the port, and it appears not to be, I think that's a PR either for the handbook or the port, but I'm not sure which it should be (suggestions welcome). Although you can hand-type it in (and the handbook actually includes this as an option, to its credit) it seems to me that if it's static content, having it available for copy makes more sense. (Or should the port simply install it to the correct location? I don't see a reason why not but I am not an expert.) -- David Caldwell http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/ On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:44 AM, David P. Caldwell wrote: > 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/