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 1RTDMq-0001oh-Em for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:00:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2A6A21C0F8; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:59:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D12D721C0E3 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.152] (helo=smtp20.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTDLL-0001vR-9g for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:58:31 +0100 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp20.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTDLK-0000m8-Uu for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:58:31 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCAB2955 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:21 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vK2qX+eiPWE9 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0D7153C for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from 62.132.204.84 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:20 +0100 Message-ID: <9f5f9d0b02943480874b346ef2e50313.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <20111123133445.64c7f06c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> <20111122222923.7c1a6901@rohan.example.com> <20111122230635.7f2bcf4a@digimed.co.uk> <20111123133445.64c7f06c@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:20 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please. From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 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: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: - X-Ziggo-spamscore: -1.4 X-Archives-Salt: d024d516-de69-4ca6-87a8-b94b13269689 X-Archives-Hash: 933daab78374b10f4a5bf6e1fb5f4add On Wed, November 23, 2011 2:34 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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" scanne= r >> that would refuse to work with Sane as the device has some weird >> initialization routines that need to be controlled by the actual drive= r. > > 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. Probably the free drinks version. But when also considering VMWare, I doubt it would matter much. -- Joost