Here is an idea... a lot of legacy devices have propietary drivers for ancient OSs, but lack drivers for other ones (like, say, modern Linux), because the manufacturers never released information or an SDK.
So, here´s the idea... you´ll tell me if it´d be doable (anything is, from the POV of software and virtualization, I think, given enough lines of code and brains behind the effort :). The idea would be to turn Virtualbox inside-out like a sock :) How difficult would it be to create, say, a "host OS virtual NIC interface" that actually is bridged to a NIC interface on the guest OS, running propietary drivers under a propietary OS?. I´m thinking HPNA 2.0 USB devices, for which Broadcom never released linux drivers. If I get Virtualbox VM running Win2k and the propietary Broadcom win2k drivers in there... why can´t the host OS "see" that NIC as a virtual host-OS nic?. It would be like what VBox does with host devices to guests, but the other way around. :) Thoughts? Comments? Expletives? (joke) FC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
