On 20 February 2012 19:48, klas englund <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Collin, > > Actually I run both owfs and rrdtool in a VirtualBox on my WHS server. > > It was quite an hurdle to get everything set up at first try, I am a newbee > to both the Linux world and VirtualBox. I run debian in the VM. The setup > has been working fine for several months now. > > I don't have the cookbook on the top of my head, but one cruical part was > that all (debian) packages has to come from squeeze or sid. Be *very* > careful with wheezy, there is one package that has to be taken from there > but I don't remember which. If you use some tool for installing packages, be > sure to uncheck the tick box for wheezy! > > One trick I had to use to get the USB working: I had to go to the Win device > manager and manually install the USB driver for VB. This is equaly valid for > Win 7 as for WHS. VB does tell it has active USB devices but can not > communicate with them, Win device manager tells there is a problem. Once > installed manually it works.
OK, thanks. That is good to know. I was planning to use Ubuntu in VB as I have experience with that. It is the Win side that I have less experience of. Unfortunately the machine has to run Win for other reasons. Colin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
