Print job queues untill Vbox shutdown

[Petter Adsen]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 16:43:26 +0200
oxy <oxyopes at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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?

You can't. Either the guest has access to the printer, or the host
does. An alternative would be to set up a shared print queue on the
host, and print to that over the network from the guest. They can't
both control the USB port at the same time.

Petter

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