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
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 w