Re: [MLUG] Linux with Windows apps

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Michael Stegeman wrote:
>
> > I'm currently using the closed-source version of VirtualBox, simply 
> > because the open-source version does not work with USB devices as is. 
> > If that's not a big issue for you, then I'd say go ahead with the GPL 
> > version.
>
> In the "Proprietary version vs. free and open source edition" section of 
> the Wikipedia entry for VirtualBox, I see this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualbox#Proprietary_version_vs._free_and_open_source_edition
>
> So that means that USB devices will not work in Windows under 
> VirtualBox. I thought at first reading that it only meant that the USB 
> was not available remotely.  That probably will be important for me 
> because we may be doing some things with a USB barcode label printer.


My colleague came up with this solution for the GPL version:

"I added a line of code

 none    /proc/bus/usb    usbfs    devgid=1001,devmode=666    0    0 
to the /etc/fstab  ( I found it from
http://yoten.blogspot.com/2007/06/virtualbox-usb-error.html) and the
usb drive works."


If that works consistently, then I guess the GPL version is the one for 
me.

Mike

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