[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-11-23, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
> On Wed, November 23, 2011 12:06 am, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the
>>> open-source version.
>>
>> Except USB support.
>
> Huh?

The last time I checked, USB support is not available in the
open-source version of VB -- only in the binary-only version.

> I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use a "negatives" scanner
> that would refuse to work with Sane as the device has some weird
> initialization routines that need to be controlled by the actual driver.
>
> The connection was with USB and worked perfectly.
>
> I doubt USB support has disappeared suddenly.

And you're using the open-source VB?

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