The first thing to do is determine why you using a USB device. Once this is done the answer will direct you to the most appropriate solution.
Fedora Virtual Manager is designed for a host virtual "server" class machine used for cloud computing. In this market USB devices are not used since multiple virtual guests would have each other's USB devices. Typically, the only USB devices used for sever class virtual machines are USB software license dongles. In this scenario the proper use these license dongles. Is to purchase a USB to IP hardware box and the corresponding software for the virtual server. Many of these protocol converters can convert as many as five USB devices and assign access per virtual machine. If this is not describe your scenario then you require a "workstation" class host. The best solutions for this environment is VMware and Virtual Box. I have been running VWware Player 3.x.x for quite awhile and all host devices work great including sound, USB 2.0, CD burning/ripping, large res Sent from my iPod On Dec 30, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Tom Horsley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:32:05 -0500 > Bob Cochran wrote: > >> If I do this, it will >> become very important for the Ubuntu machine to have access to USB >> devices connected to the host. > > Practically speaking, the answer is no. Virtually nothing actually > functions correctly (unless major strides have been made since the > last time I tried it). A usb thumb drive, maybe, a printer - no way. > > The commercial version of virtualbox is the only system I have > ever heard of that does usb well, but I've never tried it myself. > _______________________________________________ > virt mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
