Print job queues untill Vbox shutdown

oxy oxyopes at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 5 14:43:26 UTC 2015


Hi,

> So printing to a USB connected printer doesn't work, but printing to a
> network printer does? Maybe the USB port was controlled by the VM, and
> it was released when you shut the guest down. Your document was simply
> waiting in the print queue until the printer became available. Check the
> Virtualbox settings for that guest.
> Both KVM and VMware have the ability to let guests control USB-connected
> devices directly, I assume Virtualbox can do this also.

sure Vbox is blocking usb. I added the usb printer to the system over the
Vbox usb config window. However i do want to print from both host and guest.
How can i do that?

By the way the guest printing did not work as well  :-)




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