Tom Patton wrote:
> 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
>
>
I've found its better to leave the filters out of the initial setup and
after starting xp, plug in usb device and then use the devices menu on
the vbox window to enable the device. Another tip is to completely
uninstall the suse virtual box, including the kernel module, as yast
won't make you do so, before installing
VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE102-1.i586.rpm . It contains everything
it needs. It has a comprehensive help system too.
Dave
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