Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

[Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>]

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Am Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:34:45 +0000
schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:

> 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.  
> > >
> > > Except USB support.  
> > 
> > Huh?
> > 
> > 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.

USB*2* support is not included in the OSE version (but is available in the
oracle extension pack:
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing), while USB1 is
supported out of the box.

Also, since version 4, the package is now just called app-emulation/virtualbox,
so "open source edition" isn't quite correct anymore. Now they call it the "base
package". AFAIK, all the proprietary components were moved into the extension
pack.

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Marc Joliet
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