VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-05 Thread Jerry Gilliam
I am sponsoring this fast-track on behalf of Strony Zhang, with a timeout set to 08/12/2009. The project desires minor release binding. -jg -- Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduct

VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-12 Thread Rick Matthews
+1 Jerry Gilliam wrote: > > I am sponsoring this fast-track on behalf of Strony Zhang, > with a timeout set to 08/12/2009. The project desires > minor release binding. > > > -jg > > > -- > > Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI > This information is

VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Jerry Gilliam wrote: > > I am sponsoring this fast-track on behalf of Strony Zhang, > with a timeout set to 08/12/2009. The project desires > minor release binding. That means no S10 version, so I guess virtualbox will be designed to work on systems both with and without this new interface? >

VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Ramshankar wrote: > No, VirtualBox will not support USB on S10 hosts then. It would be great > if this and another fix (regarding usb_reset_device) went into S10. But > we at least require this in Nevada as soon as possible. My question was rather more will these new versions of virtualbox still

VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-12 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andrew Gabriel wrote: > If I plug in a USB device, let's say a memory stick, how does the system > decide if native Solaris wants to use it, or an OS instance in > Virtualbox, or which one across potentially several virtualboxes? If you do this with VMware, you first tell vmware to capture e.g

VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Andrew Gabriel wrote: > >> If I plug in a USB device, let's say a memory stick, how does the system >> decide if native Solaris wants to use it, or an OS instance in >> Virtualbox, or which one across potentially several virtualboxes? > > If you do this with VMware, yo

VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-12 Thread Ramshankar
No, VirtualBox will not support USB on S10 hosts then. It would be great if this and another fix (regarding usb_reset_device) went into S10. But we at least require this in Nevada as soon as possible. If we get the things in S10 we need we'd be more than happy to provide support for S10 as well

VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-12 Thread Ramshankar
On Solaris 10 our installer makes sure we don't try and load the USB drivers. VirtualBox will not continue to work on S10 without this functionality. Andrew Gabriel wrote: > Ramshankar wrote: >> No, VirtualBox will not support USB on S10 hosts then. It would be >> great if this and another fix

VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-12 Thread Ramshankar
VirtualBox *will* continue to work on S10 without this functionality. Sorry for that awful typo. Ramshankar wrote: > On Solaris 10 our installer makes sure we don't try and load the USB > drivers. > > VirtualBox will not continue to work on S10 without this functionality. > > > Andrew Gabriel

VirtualBox USB Device Capture [PSARC/2009/422 08/12/2009]

2009-08-12 Thread Jerry Gilliam
This case was approved today during the weekly PSARC meeting. -jg