Re: {SOLVED}virtualbox-usb printer not recognized
On 08/25/2015 06:19 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: On 08/25/2015 12:48 AM, Seeker wrote: On 8/24/2015 6:27 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. My usb keyboard works. My wifi usb mouse works. But my printer isn't recognized. I have all the info in the usb filter setup but it keeps showing no usb items attached... Anyone else have a similar problem? Anyone got any ideas? Have reinstalled the extension pack 3 timesd and besides all the other primare usb iltems work. Thanks in advance. Any help greatlly appreciated.. Whit I have not played around with Virtualbox with Linux as the host os. With Windows as the host OS Virtualbox takes care of disconnecting the printer from the host OS so it can be used in the Virtual machine. Since I am usually setting things up for non techie people and want to reduce the things they have to try and wrap their head around, I typically set the printer up as a network printer in the guest OS. A quick look on Google, looks like that is the recommended course of action when using Linux as the host OS. http://www.ehow.com/how_8743472_do-print-out-virtualbox.html With Windows as the host the printer just needs to work in the host OS, it doesn't need to be shared in the host OS. Since the instructions don't say anything special about the host set up I'm guessing it is the same with Linux as the host, but those were the first instructions I saw and never looked to much after. I expect if there is extra set up required someone will chime in. Later, Seeker Seeker, Thanks so much for the reply. I tried to do whaat the link you gave me said to do but messed it up because I'm not Windows proficient. Found another site that gives info on how to set up the network printer and will try that soon. Am backed up w. stuff right now. Thanks so much for your help. I found nothing about this type of situation when I did my google searches. I will let y'all know how it goes when I get back to it. Gracias amigo, seeker. Whit Seeker and all, Finally got back to my prob w. usb printer and such and did some searches on google and something that kept coming up was to check to see if i was lited in the Gropu as user. So finally got frustraated and checked and while my name was in the virtualbox user grouop it wasa not checked so I checked it and had to aulthenticate w. root user pwd. Then got it working by logging out of host and logging back in. Then starting virtualbox and then the Win 7 guest. And voila, there was my printer listed on my usb port. Then verified by printing and yes it works great. Oh boy. so nice to have it working. Haven't checked to see if I can use any thumb drives but will do so tomorrow. And yes I had to add the printer filter to the usb devices in the device setup and had to also set the usb version to 2.0 instead of 3.0. I kept seeing that VB does not redognze usb v.3 yet. It may but haven't verified that it does or not. Will verify that tomorrow too. Hope that helps someone else. Been trying for a couple of years to get this far w. VB. Nice to be at least this far. Cheers and yippee. Whit
Re: virtualbox-usb printer not recognized
On 8/25/2015 3:19 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Seeker, Thanks so much for the reply. I tried to do whaat the link you gave me said to do but messed it up because I'm not Windows proficient. Found another site that gives info on how to set up the network printer and will try that soon. Am backed up w. stuff right now. Thanks so much for your help. I found nothing about this type of situation when I did my google searches. I will let y'all know how it goes when I get back to it. Gracias amigo, seeker. Whit Looks like you need to share the printer in Linux attempting to add it to the Windows guest. If you are running Gnome or KDE there should be a control panel type of area that includes something for printer setup. In other environments there may be something on the applications menu in a 'Preferences' or 'System' section of the menu. Here are a couple more links, they don't go into great detail, but give a general idea of what is needed end to end and between them, look like they cover the important bits. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1614284 http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=59183 Later, Seeker
Re: virtualbox-usb printer not recognized
On 08/25/2015 12:48 AM, Seeker wrote: On 8/24/2015 6:27 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. My usb keyboard works. My wifi usb mouse works. But my printer isn't recognized. I have all the info in the usb filter setup but it keeps showing no usb items attached... Anyone else have a similar problem? Anyone got any ideas? Have reinstalled the extension pack 3 timesd and besides all the other primare usb iltems work. Thanks in advance. Any help greatlly appreciated.. Whit I have not played around with Virtualbox with Linux as the host os. With Windows as the host OS Virtualbox takes care of disconnecting the printer from the host OS so it can be used in the Virtual machine. Since I am usually setting things up for non techie people and want to reduce the things they have to try and wrap their head around, I typically set the printer up as a network printer in the guest OS. A quick look on Google, looks like that is the recommended course of action when using Linux as the host OS. http://www.ehow.com/how_8743472_do-print-out-virtualbox.html With Windows as the host the printer just needs to work in the host OS, it doesn't need to be shared in the host OS. Since the instructions don't say anything special about the host set up I'm guessing it is the same with Linux as the host, but those were the first instructions I saw and never looked to much after. I expect if there is extra set up required someone will chime in. Later, Seeker Seeker, Thanks so much for the reply. I tried to do whaat the link you gave me said to do but messed it up because I'm not Windows proficient. Found another site that gives info on how to set up the network printer and will try that soon. Am backed up w. stuff right now. Thanks so much for your help. I found nothing about this type of situation when I did my google searches. I will let y'all know how it goes when I get back to it. Gracias amigo, seeker. Whit
virtualbox-usb printer not recognized
Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. My usb keyboard works. My wifi usb mouse works. But my printer isn't recognized. I have all the info in the usb filter setup but it keeps showing no usb items attached... Anyone else have a similar problem? Anyone got any ideas? Have reinstalled the extension pack 3 timesd and besides all the other primare usb iltems work. Thanks in advance. Any help greatlly appreciated.. Whit
Re: virtualbox-usb printer not recognized
On 8/24/2015 6:27 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. My usb keyboard works. My wifi usb mouse works. But my printer isn't recognized. I have all the info in the usb filter setup but it keeps showing no usb items attached... Anyone else have a similar problem? Anyone got any ideas? Have reinstalled the extension pack 3 timesd and besides all the other primare usb iltems work. Thanks in advance. Any help greatlly appreciated.. Whit I have not played around with Virtualbox with Linux as the host os. With Windows as the host OS Virtualbox takes care of disconnecting the printer from the host OS so it can be used in the Virtual machine. Since I am usually setting things up for non techie people and want to reduce the things they have to try and wrap their head around, I typically set the printer up as a network printer in the guest OS. A quick look on Google, looks like that is the recommended course of action when using Linux as the host OS. http://www.ehow.com/how_8743472_do-print-out-virtualbox.html With Windows as the host the printer just needs to work in the host OS, it doesn't need to be shared in the host OS. Since the instructions don't say anything special about the host set up I'm guessing it is the same with Linux as the host, but those were the first instructions I saw and never looked to much after. I expect if there is extra set up required someone will chime in. Later, Seeker
