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On 05/25/2011 07:45 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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> On 05/25/2011 06:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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>>> For the record. |
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>>> Tried and it is very nice. The 4.0.6 version with extpack uses the GPL |
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>>> vbox (source). |
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>>> All usb devices on the gentoo host are visible on a Windows7 guest. The |
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>>> problem I am facing now is that the Windows7 virtual machine tries to |
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>>> install drivers for the USB devices and it fails. Not sure what is going |
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>>> on... It may be an issue with USB 1.0 versus 2.0? |
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>>> -- |
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>>> Valmor |
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>> Hi Valmor, |
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>> Good to know it at least gets you 1 step further in the right direction. |
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>> As for Win 7 installing USB drivers is there an option to not |
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>> install it automatically and then you go look for the right driver and |
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>> install it by hand? |
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>> One other possibility might be that either Linux or another VM is |
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>> claiming the device and hence it's not responding correctly to the |
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>> driver install. i typically run 3 VMs every day - 2 VMPLayer/XP and 1 |
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>> virtualbox/Win 7. I've noted that I have to be a little careful to |
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>> ensure the VMs don't interfere with each other WRT USB devices. |
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>> Good luck figuring it out. Please post back if you find interesting info. |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Mark |
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> I think you are in the right track as far as a race between host and |
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> guest for claiming the device. It is not the driver installation that is |
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> the problem. The driver is installed and Windows7 says it is the latest |
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> driver. The problem is that at the end of the installation W7 tries to |
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> mount/start the device and that is when things do not work. The status |
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> of the device is listed as |
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> This device cannot start. (Code 10) |
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> There is quite a bit on the web on the "Code 10" error. Still |
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> investigating... |
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> fdisk -l on the gentoo host lists the device if the guest is not |
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> running. As soon as the guest boots, the device is not listed by fdisk |
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> -l, this means that things are at least going in the right direction. |
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> The vbox manual says that the device should be hidden from the host once |
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> the guest gets a hold of it. |
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> -- |
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> Valmor |
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After much digging, no success. Apparently it is an ongoing bug. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364717 |
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When virtualbox is installed with the extension USE flag it pulls the |
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oracle extension package and the USB interface on the Virtualbox manager |
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is supposed to present a USB 2.0 box. This does not show up. Therefore |
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it appears that USB 2.0 devices can't start on the VM guest since only |
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USB 1.0 is enabled. |
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No luck so far but it is pretty close to be resolved. All USB devices I |
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have tried are identified by the Win7 VM guest and the drivers correctly |
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installed. It is only the startup that fails. |
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That is all folks. |
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Valmor |
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