Bug 190829
| Summary: | Virtualization hald_enable | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Steven Doerfler <sgd-freebsdbugzilla> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Warren Block <wblock> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | wblock |
| Priority: | --- | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Update committed, thanks! A commit references this bug: Author: wblock Date: Tue Aug 26 20:38:19 UTC 2014 New revision: 45521 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45521 Log: Be more specific about necessary configuration when using Xorg in a VirtualBox FreeBSD guest. PR: 190829 Submitted by: Steven Doerfler <sgd-freebsdbugzilla@lugaru.com> Changes: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml |
The Handbook section on using FreeBSD as a guest OS within VirtualBox ("VirtualBox Guest Additions on a FreeBSD Guest") mentions adding the lines vboxguest_enable="YES" vboxservice_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf, and mentions changes to other files needed to run Xorg. Readers might think that those are the only changes to /etc/rc.conf needed to run Xorg in this configuration, especially with the phrase "automatically recognized by Xorg -configure". But it's actually necessary to also add hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf for Xorg to work. Either all four lines needed in /etc/rc.conf for Xorg should be listed, or at least a reference to the Xorg section of the handbook should be added ("Other required changes to this file to run Xorg may be found here" for instance.)