Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

2022-03-07 Thread Sean Warner
-Original Message- From: Liam Proven [mailto:lpro...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 March 2022 11:23 To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle? On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 at 20:09,

Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

2022-03-06 Thread Louis Santillan
I didn’t miss that. Licensing software is something I presume Sean and his company are familiar with in this day and age. And it is every individual’s responsibility. However, my guide wasn’t intended as a lesson about FOSS. On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 3:24 AM Liam Proven wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar

Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

2022-03-05 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 at 20:09, Louis Santillan wrote: > > I wrote a quick guide on how to pass through USB devices to a VirtualBox VM. > > https://sites.google.com/view/lpsantil/home/adding-usb-device-to-a-virtualbox-vm [...] > 5. Pick an appropriate USB spec controller. Very old devices will

Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

2022-03-04 Thread Louis Santillan
I wrote a quick guide on how to pass through USB devices to a VirtualBox VM. https://sites.google.com/view/lpsantil/home/adding-usb-device-to-a-virtualbox-vm It's quite simple to add a USB device to a VirtualBox 6.1 VM. Elsewhere you find this called "passing in a device", "device passthru",

Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

2022-03-04 Thread tom ehlert
Hello, > Before I loose hours trying to get this to work this weekend. Would > anyone know about getting freedos to recognize USB security dongles? that's easy: ANYDOS does nothing about USB, and neither USB security dongles. > I use a HASP USB security dongle to activate an old software >

Re: [Freedos-user] Will freedos running in a Virtual box VM recognise a host attached USB security dongle?

2022-03-04 Thread Sean Warner
Hello, Before I loose hours trying to get this to work this weekend. Would anyone know about getting freedos to recognize USB security dongles? I use a HASP USB security dongle to activate an old software program. I