On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:28 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jean-Philippe Ouellet: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:32 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've been having some problems with this myself. Specifically, I'm not > >> sure how to pass my USB printer to an appVM. The only thing I can see to > >> do is to attach my whole USB controller to a VM, but I'm pretty sure if > >> I do that I'll lose my input devices (USB keyboard and mouse) and not be > >> able to control the system. > > > > See https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/#attaching-a-single-usb- > device-to-a-qube-usb-passthrough > > > >> Do you have to have a usbvm (sys-usb) in order to get this to work? > > > > Yes. > > Thanks for the reply! I had seen that documentation, but I was hoping > there was another way to do it. > Just buy yourself a cheap network printer adapter that will transform your printer in a network printer. Then you follow Qubes tutorial for a network printer, which is the canonical way to print under Qubes. Why complicate your life when it can be simple? Best Fran > > It looks like I can't create a usbvm, because I'm using a desktop > computer with no PS/2 ports and only one USB controller, and so I need > my USB controller in dom0 to use my keyboard and mouse. > > Am I wrong about that? If not, it looks like I'm hosed as far as USB > printers are concerned. Oh well. Qubes is still worth it anyway, and I > can always copy files over to my other machine via USB stick when I need > to print something. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qubes-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/qubes-users/7d834cf9-7e7f-36d6-eca4-3b4b2a96b2e2%40riseup.net. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAPzH-qD9mEDZ02C3ggAkTfXrFsYmzCsCF4YaFaz_2f_0%2BTgCzA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
