Re: [MLUG] Linux with Windows apps

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Michael Stegeman wrote:

> Sounds good!  Let me know if it works, I might have to switch over.

He told me that "the usb drive works" with the added line in /etc/fstab 
It's below.  If you want to wait a while to see if it performs well over 
the coming months, you can write to me later.  I just don't know if we'll 
be using a lot of different devices with it to really give it a thorough 
test.  If it works for one thing, it probably works for many things.

Mike


> Mike Miller wrote:
> > 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.

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