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
