Hi folks. Last night I sat down and decided to try to get USB working in VBox. About the only thing I need Windows for anymore is my film scanner (Plustek OpticFilm 7200), for which there doesn't yet appear to be a Linux driver.
Host: Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) Guest: Windows 2000 SP4 VirtualBox 1.5.2 It was a bit tricky at first... I followed the workaround for getting /proc/bus/usb up on Gutsy (http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/747) and set up a filter for the scanner, but it still wasn't working (I still got the VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND error when I turned the device on). I eliminated permission issues on the device file and was about to give up for the night when I discovered by accident that if I saved the state of machine, closed it, and restarted it, the device was suddenly recognized in the guest. I found out later that if the device was powered on when I booted up, it would work fine as well. It just appears that hot-plugging is not working properly. No big deal for me. The bigger problem is that when I try to start a preview scan (either in the included SilverFast or with VueScan), I think I can hear one little blip of a noise from the scanner, but then nothing else happens, and the software within the guest locks up. I can tell both pieces of software recognized the scanner properly. Are there any tips or tweaks available for getting troublesome USB devices working? I really don't want to have to resort to dual-boot just because of this. Thanks for any suggestions... David Murphy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
