Dear Mr. Karant, I've just checked the membership list of the vbox-dev mailing list but didn't find your E-mail address so it seems that you are not subscribed to this list. Note that there was a vbox-users mailing list until some months ago which does not longer exists. But I hereby forward your E-mail to the vbox-dev mailing list.
On Thursday 10 June 2010, you wrote: [...] > Note that I am not the author of the various items below, merely > repeating them in one place. You finally seem to have a viable > replacement for VMWare workstation that actually executes > MS Win XP Pro applications both faster and at lower real machine > loads than VMWare. > > For well over a year, I have been attempting to get VirtualBox to work > with VMWare vmdk files that have MS Win XP Pro SP3 installed and working. > I have now succeeded, and I think that this information would be good to > get to the general end-user. Host: CentOS (RHEL) current, presently > 5.5, on a IA-32 platform. Guest: MS Win XP Pro SP3. [...] > 1. Before shutting down VMWare running the MS Win XP image, remove > VMware tools within MS Win XP. Shutdown the machine. > > 2. Make a new Virtual Box using the VMWare MS Win XP image. > > 3. Within Virtual Box. boot the virtual machine from a MS Win XP CD, > and using the MS Win information on how to remove agp440, remove/disable > it. > > 4. Boot the no-agp440 machine withing VirtualBox. Install the Virtual > Box MS Win tools. > > 5. Follow the procedure below to enable USB: > > *VirtualBox USB Ports* > > Running CentOS as my host OS and using VirtualBox to run "everything else", > it didn't take long before I was running into USB problems. In my case I > had a Windows 2000 guest on a CentOS 5 host (same for RedHat EL) and I > wanted to use ActiveSync to connect to my WM5 Windows Mobile device. > > I'm diverting for a sec, but this is the big reason why I like VirtualBox > so much. I do software development for the Windows Mobile platform > (http://www.locatea.net/) which requires a lot of software installation for > Visual Studio and then even more for the various Windows Mobile SDKs. It is > quite a job to get it all installed correctly. Previously that whole > install could (and would) easily be screwed up because some completely > unrelated application would mess up the registry, forcing you to reinstall > the server and start from scratch. > > Now, by virtualizing my desktop, I have an instance that I solely use for > Windows Mobile software development. If I need Microsoft Office I do it in > another Windows guest. And if I want to tryout a new software package that > I don't really trust, I simply clone my base image and install it in there. > If the app doesn't work out or behaves badly, I can simply blow the whole > image. > > So, where many people think that desktop virtualization is just great for > running different types of OSes on a single host, IMHO it is even more > important because it allows you to create multiple environments, that have > very dissimilar functionality, but can have the same platform requirements. > Of course I also use it to run OpenSolaris on my Mac.:-) > > Back to USB in Windows guests. Out of the box it doesn't work, at least not > on my platform. A little googling provides a lot of recommendations to add > an entry to/etc/fstab (none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=501,devmode=0664 0 > 0). It seems that for Ubuntu this fixes the problem, but not for RedHat / > CentOS. It took me a lot of searching, but finally I found in an obscure > corner of some forum a solution. You have to modify your > /etc/rc.d/rc/sysinit file. > > if [ ! -d /proc/bus/usb ]; then > modprobe usbcore>/dev/null 2>&1&& mount -n -t usbfs \ > /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb -o > devgid=501,devmode=664 else > mount -n -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb -o > devgid=501,devmode=664 fi > > This piece is mainly already there, but you need to add the "-o" > parameters. In here "501" is the GID you have specified in your /etc/group > for the vboxusers group. > > After having done this, the Windows guest recognizes USB sticks, external > hard drives and nicely connects to my mobile phone. > > For the MS Win XP part of the problem: > > *How to fix the error > "This Device Cannot Start. (Code 10)" > When working with a USB device in Windows XP* > > If you have plugged in a USB device (usually a mass storage device) into a > computer and it doesnt work, here are some basic troubleshooting steps to > resolve the problem. > > First, you want to rule out any problems with the device itself. A good way > to do this is to plug the USB device into a different computer to see if it > works there. If it does not work in a different computer, then the problem > is with the device itself. USB devices, although very handy and portable > can fail just like any other device. > > However, if the USB device works in another computer system, then the > problem lies with the configuration of the computer where the device did > not work. > > Follow the steps below to troubleshoot this scenario and make your USB > device work again. > > 1) If you are using a USB cable with your device, check the cable to make > sure it matches the speed of the device. Use USB 2.0 cables with USB 2.0 > devices and USB 1.1 cables with USB 1.1 devices. Swap cables and check the > device, if this does not work, proceed to Step 2. > > 2) Next, open Device Manager and look under the heading for USB Serial Bus > Controllers. If there is a device with a yellow exclamation mark next to it > such as USB Mass Storage Device. Double-click on the entry and check the > Device Status. If the status shows something like > > *"This device cannot start. (Code 10)"* > > proceed to Step 3. > > 3) The easiest way to solve a USB error code 10 in Windows XP is to follow > the steps below to remove and reinstall all USB controllers. > > A. Click on Start > B. Right Click on My Computer, click on Properties > C. Click on the Hardware tab > D. Click the Device Manager button. > E. Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers section. > F. Right-click every device under the Universal Serial Bus controllers > node, and then click Uninstall to remove them one at a time. > G. Restart the computer, and allow the computer to reinstall the USB > controllers. H. Plug in the removable USB storage device, and then test to > make sure that the issue is resolved. > > For more information on Troubleshooting USB device problems, visit the > Microsoft Support Article on this > subject.<http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310575> Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz
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