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Am Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:34:45 +0000 |
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schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>: |
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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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USB*2* support is not included in the OSE version (but is available in the |
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oracle extension pack: |
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https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing), while USB1 is |
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supported out of the box. |
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Also, since version 4, the package is now just called app-emulation/virtualbox, |
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so "open source edition" isn't quite correct anymore. Now they call it the "base |
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package". AFAIK, all the proprietary components were moved into the extension |
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pack. |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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