On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:15:53 -0700 King Beowulf <kingbeow...@gmail.com> dijo:
>On 08/20/2015 06:39 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> I have successfully migrated to 14.04 on a new 1 T HD from 12.04 on >> an older 0.5T HD. Vbox seems to run fine; all my installed programs >> are there. A cursory look says that they are functional. But I >> cannot access my printer. It appears to be that VB does not find >> any USB devices. >Did you upgrade VirtualBox during the Ubuntu upgrade? I assume so. You >will have to update the guest additions installation for the Win2k >guest. Also, did you set before a USB filter to grab the USB printer? >You do this in the VB gui before you launch - the USB enable check box >might not be checked. This is an interesting dilemma. At last Sunday's Clinic a fellow came in who could not get Windows in Virtualbox to see his USB stick. Checking my own installation of Virtualbox and my Windows 2000 and XP virtual machines, I discovered that they were also unable to see a USB stick. I do have the Guest Additions installed, as did he, and Enable USB was set in the VB GUI for the guest machines, but no go. Eventually we worked around his problem by creating a folder "USB_Stick" in his ~/ folder and having him manually mount the USB stick there instead of in /media. He had already shared his entire ~/ folder with the virtual machine, so this let him access the contents. Unfortunately this workaround will not provide a solution if the problem is failing to see a printer. A more interesting question is why Guest Additions (installed from the Xubuntu 14.04 repos in my case) does not do what it is supposed to do, i.e., allow the guest machine to see USB devices. I might also add that I use my Windows 2000 machine on average about once a month. Just about every time I have to reinstall all the VB packages before the virtual machine will start. I get a popup with a command that is supposed to fix the problem, but it always fails with an error message (since forgotten). The only solution is to reinstall all the packages. The only reason I continue to use Virtualbox is that I am too lazy to try anything else. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
