On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Let's divide between the meat and the flies around it. It is no joke. What do you want to achieve ? Reverse shared folders ? Reverse USB redirection ? Reverse PCI passthrough ? I don't know if the latter two are possible or not. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
