On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 09:29 -0600, Stevens wrote: > Tom: > > Read your post about VB, XP and serial port stuff. > > Do I understand you correctly that you have VB running > on a Linux host with XP guest AND it recognizes a usb device? > > If so, please give me some details on how to do that. I am > running opensuse 10.2, kernet 2.6.18. > > Thanks, > Fred > Fred, good morning,
I'll have to think back thru all the attempts to figure out a step-by-step, it was a rather hacked way I went about it, since I had forgotten several admin things that always irked me with windoz! I imagine that your problem may be that the open-source release of VB does not include usb support _at all_. You need to get http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE102-1.i586.rpm the binary install for 10.2. I'm using 10.3 32-bit version, but others in their forum are using 10.2, so good luck. Remove the Oss version (but don't delete the XP guest files). Install VB closed-source, attach the original virtual files, insert the usb device, and launch VB. Do NOT launch the guest yet... If you get there, you will see a USB item in the VB details tab. (I think you _have_ to insert the usb device B4 launching VB.) In the USB dialog, there is a filter section. The small icons at the right indicate known usb devices, add the one you wish to use (in my case it is the Belkin converter dongle). I would add JUST the device of interest, not all of them. Next, start the XP guest, and do all the crap XP needs to use the device. I DL'd the belkin driver, burned it to a cd, and ran the Belkin installer. XP installed the device as com4, and I can copy the GPS sentences out of my Garmin (with [ugh] Hyperterm). I have not verified if it will work with my radio application, but it looks very promising now. Hope that helps, Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
