<div dir="ltr">Virtualbox handles USB fine, plug in and enable the device from the usb icon. The VM will scream for the drivers. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Frans de waal <<a href="mailto:meesterarend@gmail.com" target="_blank">meesterarend@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"> On Jul 11, 2013 10:04 PM, "Wesley Werner" <<a href="mailto:wesley.werner@gmail.com" target="_blank">wesley.werner@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > I can't vouch for Virtualbox, but it seems like QEMU / KVM has usb passthrough [1]. I have not used this feature of KVM before so cannot give you specifics. > > I feel your pain on this, and feel you are delving into a world that would involve voodoo. Good luck! > > [1]: <a href="http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#usb_005fdevices" target="_blank">http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#usb_005fdevices</a> > > -- > Wesley > </div>I recall seeing usb options on virtual box... not curently close to my pc to check though<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Jan Greeff <<a href="mailto:jan@verslank.net" target="_blank">jan@verslank.net</a>> wrote: >> >> This seems over my head, will it be easier to get my USB ports to work on my Oracle VM Virtualbox 4.1.2? >> >> Jan >> >> >> >> On 11/07/2013 15:10, Bruce Pieterse wrote: >>> >>> On 11/07/2013 14:24, Wesley Werner wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Jan. I tried to backtrack what app you are meaning, can you please reiterate what app, and if there is a chance of an alternative native app? >>>> >>>> Not sure about WINE's hardware interaction (usb). >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> As far as USB support goes for WINE, it doesn't work. I set up iTunes a while back (11.10/12.04) and tried to get my iPod working with it. Unfortunately, after doing all that then looking for any articles relating to WINE USB support the answer was no and the alternative solution was to setup a virtual machine with USB passthrough. >>> >>> BUT, looking for an answer today I found this: <a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/USB" target="_blank">http://wiki.winehq.org/USB</a> >>> >>> If it works, please let me know! :) >>> >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-za mailing list >> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> >> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> > > > > -- > ubuntu-za mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> > </div></div> -- ubuntu-za mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> </blockquote></div> </div>