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 1RTDbx-0005q8-LV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:15:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BC2F21C0B1; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:15:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A6921C0DD for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:14:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231CE1B4021 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:14:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.352 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.352 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.147, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.201] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ChtmyHZYM28k for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6781B4001 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RTDaj-0008Nm-8u for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:14:25 +0100 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:14:25 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:14:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please. Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:14:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20111122192021.GA3364@acm.acm> <20111122222923.7c1a6901@rohan.example.com> <20111122230635.7f2bcf4a@digimed.co.uk> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: bb403d66-a071-4bf8-a936-ae53942b2a7e X-Archives-Hash: a3424f6ce310d05cc4e7687a5068da5e On 2011-11-23, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wed, November 23, 2011 12:06 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the >>> open-source version. >> >> Except USB support. > > Huh? The last time I checked, USB support is not available in the open-source version of VB -- only in the binary-only version. > 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. > > The connection was with USB and worked perfectly. > > I doubt USB support has disappeared suddenly. And you're using the open-source VB? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'll eat ANYTHING at that's BRIGHT BLUE!! gmail.com