Ubuntu 8.04 and Xen for Win XP guest?

[NoOp]

On 05/29/2008 10:32 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Steven Davies-Morris wrote:
> 
>> I am using the package d/l off the Innotek website. Not the one OSE out
>> of the repositories. I just d/l it again and had the Gdebi installer go
>> through the process again. When I start the Vbox mamager the USB devices
>> are "active", seen, named, mfg ID'd, serial number recognized, etc. Once
>> I start the WinXP virtual I can't get access to them -- they are "greyed
>> out". There's something else going on here that I haven't yet figured
>> out. I'll come back it to it on Friday.
> 
> You do realize you can't access a USB device that's already in use by Linux,
> right?  If you want to share them, you'll need to make them available via
> Samba, and access them as network printers.  Only one computer can be
> accessing a USB device at a time.

I think Derek is correct in this regard. While I can easily get my USB
printer working (Canon MP750) in VB/Win2KPro directly, I cannot seem to
get it to release the USB even by unticking the Device|USB. All of my
cupsys jobs are "Held" as long as VirtualBox is running. Even shutting
down the virtual machine doesn't work, only closing done VB completely
works. And, even then, I need to turn the printer on & off again to
re-enstate the usb port so the cups print job can go through. I suppose
there is an easy command line command to do this (restart the usb
port)... just don't know what it is yet :-)