Am Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:34:45 +0000 schrieb Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:57:31 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > >> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the > > >> open-source version. > > > > > > Except USB support. > > > > Huh? > > > > I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use a "negatives" scanner > > that would refuse to work with Sane as the device has some weird > > initialization routines that need to be controlled by the actual driver. > > Are you using the open source version, or the free-as-in-beer version? > > USB support was not included in the open source version, try installing > app-emulation/virtualbox-ose and see for yourself. USB*2* support is not included in the OSE version (but is available in the oracle extension pack: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing), while USB1 is supported out of the box. Also, since version 4, the package is now just called app-emulation/virtualbox, so "open source edition" isn't quite correct anymore. Now they call it the "base package". AFAIK, all the proprietary components were moved into the extension pack. -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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