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On Wed, November 23, 2011 2:34 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:57:31 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> >> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the |
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>> >> open-source version. |
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>> > Except USB support. |
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>> Huh? |
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>> I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use a "negatives" scanner |
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>> that would refuse to work with Sane as the device has some weird |
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>> initialization routines that need to be controlled by the actual driver. |
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> Are you using the open source version, or the free-as-in-beer version? |
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> USB support was not included in the open source version, try installing |
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> app-emulation/virtualbox-ose and see for yourself. |
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Probably the free drinks version. But when also considering VMWare, I |
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doubt it would matter much. |
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