I have been using virtual box for some years on a ubuntu 14.04 system. The VirtualBox has Windows XP and Microsoft Office XP installed, as well as some prgrams for transcribing record for FreeBMB and Family Tree software. The virtual box allowed me to see and use printers and scaners attached to the usb ports of my computer. All data files are stored in the linux file system and accessed by links in the virtual box settings.
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04. I installed the version of Virtual box which came with the distribution ( version 5.0.24). I then restored the virtual machine from my backups of the Linux home directory. While I was able to open the virtual machine I could not access the printers or scanners. The failure differed according to which printer or scanner I tried to access. Previously in 14.04 I was able to scan and print documents from within the VirtualBox. Now , while the settings for the virtual machine show the usb ports and the scanners and printer connected to them, the scanner does not appear in the windows scanner part of control panel. The printers do, but all attempts to print fail on all three printer. All three printers and the scanner work using Linux. Is there any way of fixing this problem or do I need to recreate my virtual machine and reload all of the software? Regards Peter Goggin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
