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" 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. > > 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
