> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:plug-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:48 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [PLUG] Virtualbox Better Than Qemu-KVM for USB Devices?
> 
>    It appears that many folks have difficulty accessing a USB device
(flash
> drive, GPS receiver) via a guest OS in qemu-kvm. Has anyone here used
> virtualbox to host a guest OS and access the USB ports?
> 
> Rich

Yes, i've done it with thumb drives, as well as an old HandSpring Visor
(PalmOS PDA) on WindowsXP SP3 and (thumb drive only) Windows7 (64-bit),
hosting on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.11.

Once upon a time, one had to use the closed-source edition of VirtualBox
rather than VirtualBox OSE in order to get USB support. i'm not sure whether
that's still the case.
________________________________________
Joe Shisei Niski
Portland, Oregon, USA
至誠

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