Mouse & Keyboard not working in Virtual Box VM

[John Aten]

On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:18 AM, Warren Block wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Dec 2015, John Aten wrote:
> 
>> I would love to provide the output of pkg info | grep 'xf86-input-' , but unfortunately I totally destroyed the vm I was working in. When I first tried to install guest additions from ports, I got an error that said the source code was unavailable. When I got the source through SVN, I messed up and got a different version than the one I was running. I then installed the guest additions, so it appears that this messed things up somehow, unless I made some other error. I followed Colin House's suggestion to buildworld & buildkernel, following the instructions in the handbook, but somehow messed everything up; after that the VM wouldn't boot at all, so I decided to just start over.
> 
> Probably an error with mergemaster.  That could be repaired, given time.
> 
> As far as VirtualBox, yes, the guest additions kernel module needs to be built against the running code.  Once that is done, the Handbook section on VirtualBox shows X configuration:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-guest-virtualbox-guest-additions.htm

These are the instructions I followed. 

> The Handbook general Xorg configuration section has been rewritten recently:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

I did miss this one; I'll take a look at it when I get to setting up X on my new vm.

Thanks for the info and links.

John