VirtualBox OSE + USB

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu May 1 19:35:46 UTC 2008


On 05/01/2008 08:14 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> NoOp wrote:

>> 
>> Should I just blow out the repo version and try to use use the PUEL
>> version (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) instead? There is no
>> hardy version on the Sun site, only gutsy & less.
> 
> I would - afaik the ose version can't support USB.  The implication I took
> from their site was that this sort of thing will _eventually_ roll out to
> the ose version, but not until the proprietary one has more shiny
> gimmicks :-)

Yep, thats what I did and it's running just fine. Had to figure out how
to use the floppy though (mount in ubuntu first), and still going
through the docs to figure out how to get a regular sized app window.
But overall having great fun with it!





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