From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RTCzH-0003Gs-7V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:35:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86A7A21C0CC; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4211021C0CB for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9187D80430 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:34:44 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:34:45 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please. Message-ID: <20111123133445.64c7f06c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> <20111122222923.7c1a6901@rohan.example.com> <20111122230635.7f2bcf4a@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs99 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/0nUfrZ4LXVQiwkN7hdLmAuU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: c7160c80-4806-48d9-a34d-cdc29a23c175 X-Archives-Hash: f722da95ec68efd96a150d6e372d06e2 --Sig_/0nUfrZ4LXVQiwkN7hdLmAuU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:57:31 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the > >> open-source version. =20 > > > > Except USB support. =20 >=20 > Huh? >=20 > I used VirtualBox with a MSWindowsXP guest to use a "negatives" scanner > that would refuse to work with Sane as the device has some weird > initialization routines that need to be controlled by the actual driver. Are you using the open source version, or the free-as-in-beer version? USB support was not included in the open source version, try installing app-emulation/virtualbox-ose and see for yourself. --=20 Neil Bothwick Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away --Sig_/0nUfrZ4LXVQiwkN7hdLmAuU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7M9ngACgkQum4al0N1GQP2gACgg1FN4AXkeVOi0PX0OWBVPfUh opYAoKqOM+e0B6wlzkpb4M6I9R9Dz8n3 =WI1H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/0nUfrZ4LXVQiwkN7hdLmAuU--