Print job queues untill Vbox shutdown

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On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 13:26:31 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote:
>Both KVM and VMware have the ability to let guests control
>USB-connected devices directly, I assume Virtualbox can do this also.

Virtualbox is easy to use, but often cause a lot of pain.
On my Arch Linux I use virtualbox. A wile back I shared guests
with Ubunutu's and Arch's virtualbox. Arch repositories provide
virtualbox version 5.0.4, but regarding USB issues for a Win XP guest,
I keep virtualbox version 4.3.12 and within the next days I hopefully
find the time to switch to KVM, which definitively is not that easy to
set up as virtualbox, but hopefully provide good USB support.

I can't say anything about the problem the OP experiences, but USB for
guests is utterly broken by virtualbox. Sure, there are no problems for
the USB mouse or sharing some data, but e.g. communication between
iTunes and an iPad when upgrading iOS on my machine only works when
using virtualbox <= 4.3.12. I tested several versions > 4.3.12 and all
had buggy USB support. I didn't test 5.x, since I guess for serious
usage it's better to test other VMs.