On Thursday 26 April 2007 at 2:59 am, Klaus Espenlaub scribed: > Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > My Dell laptop has dial-up modem I'd like to access from my VM. > > > > Has anyone been able to get a VM to recognize a host's modem? > > If you think of running a Windows guest (which would have a driver > for it) on Linux host (which often has no driver for it), then the > answer is in 99.9% of all cases that this is not possible. > > Those modems are typically PCI devices, and as of now it's not > possible to give the guest access to the PCI devices connected to > the host. If you have such a modem connected to the USB port > (internal or external) then the story might be different of course.
Hi Klaus, Yes, that's exactly was my intent and thank you for saving me some time. Cheers, -- Pablo _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
