Virtual Box

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 21:48:06 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:14:55PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:32:23 -0700
> Aldo Foot wrote:
> 
> > I think VirtualBox may be preferred because it appears more
> > manageable in the surface.
> 
> A friend at work who uses it says it is vastly easier to
> do things like pass USB devices through to the virtual hardware
> with VirtualBox than with anything else he has tried,
> so he can do things like use Windows scanner software for
> scanners not supported by anything in linux.

I agree, USB devices are easier to pass through to VirtualBox --
however, I'm testing Rawhide on my personal machine starting this
weekend, which is very close to F11 Beta right now.  I'll try to let
the list know what improvements I see in USB device connections to the
guest.

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