No, VirtualBox will not support USB on S10 hosts then. It would be great if this and another fix (regarding usb_reset_device) went into S10. But we at least require this in Nevada as soon as possible.
If we get the things in S10 we need we'd be more than happy to provide support for S10 as well but right now we don't have them. Regards, Ram. Andrew Gabriel wrote: > Jerry Gilliam wrote: >> >> I am sponsoring this fast-track on behalf of Strony Zhang, >> with a timeout set to 08/12/2009. The project desires >> minor release binding. > > That means no S10 version, so I guess virtualbox will be designed to > work on systems both with and without this new interface? > >> -jg >> >> >> ---------------------------------- >> >> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI >> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems >> 1. Introduction >> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: >> VirtualBox USB Device Capture >> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: >> Author: Strony.Zhang >> 1.3 Date of This Document: >> 04 Aug, 2009 >> >> 4. Technical Description > > [...] > >> Solution: >> The usba(7D) provides the registration entry to VirtualBox for the >> callback and makes the Virtual-specific USB client driver higher >> priority than the default USB client driver. When a USB device is >> plugged in the system, the usba(7D) will first call the registered >> callback function to query if VirtualBox wants to capture the device. >> If yes, the VirtualBox-specific USB client driver will be attached to >> the device. Once the VirtualBox exits or user doesn't want to access >> the USB device on guest OS, the VirtualBox will unregister the >> callback and >> then Solaris will take over the USB device taken by VirtualBox. > > This seems to me to be lacking some necessary configuration. > For example, if systems are configured with "exclude: scsa2usb" as a > matter of site security, it would seem that I could bypass this by using > virtualbox? Is it sensible to allow virtualbox to take over all USB > devices without any configurability? > > If I plug in a USB device, let's say a memory stick, how does the system > decide if native Solaris wants to use it, or an OS instance in > Virtualbox, or which one across potentially several virtualboxes? >
