---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [vbox-users] vbox on a linux host Date: Monday 05 October 2009 From: Bruce MacArthur <[email protected]> To: Klaus Espenlaub <[email protected]>
On Monday 05 October 2009 11:24:47 am you wrote: > Bruce MacArthur schrieb: > > On Monday 05 October 2009 04:22:45 am Jörg Kühne wrote: > >> Dear community > >> > >> Does Vbox allow running and supporting (visualization may during > > openGL) a Windows XP simulator (with an USB device) on an Linux host? > > > > 1 -- I do not know what you mean by the word "supporting". > > 2 -- VirtualBox has NOTHING to do with "visualization". > > 3 -- VirtualBox is NOT "simulation" (or "emulation"); licensed OS's are > > required. > > 4 -- Therefore, as James Bensley has said, "I don't understand your > > question." > > > > HOWEVER, I am running Kubuntu Jaunty (9.04). Within that host > > environment, I am running VirtualBox-OSE with a single guest. That > > guest OS is Windows XP Pro. My USB devices are equally accessible under > > Jaunty and under WindowsXP. > > You certainly DON'T run VirtualBox OSE, because that does not have USB > support. I do NOT want to appear to argue with you in any sense. However, the title-bar says "WinXPP [Running] - VirtualBox OSE". I have a Wacom "Bamboo" tablet-and-pen device which is connected to the computer by USB. And it works -- without the installation of ANY software -- as a replacement for a mouse. Not only that, but I have a wireless mouse and keyboard set which has a USB "dongle" receiver -- and both devices work perfectly with no software installation at all (either in Jaunty or in WinXPP). These are FACTS that you simply cannot refute. This is a second reply -- because I forgot to mention two things. I have a CD-DVD optical drive which connects to my computer by way of USB. When I choose to enable it, it works just fine. In fact, that is the device that I used for installing Windows XP Pro within VirtualBox OSE!!! Secondly, I have not been able to upgrade to VirtualBox 3.0.6 for reasons that have not (even YET) been identified or resolved. So I have version 2.1.4 -- which was the best that a repo had when I went there! Oh, and a third item. I have long had a Verbatim 4-GB hard disk drive -- essentially a "flash drive" in a very small square format. The connection is exclusively USB. It works, both under Jaunty and under virtualized WinXPP. I hope that this information is helpful. Bruce Mac Arthur > > > > > > >> Thanks in advance > >> > >> Best regards > >> > >> Joerg > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox > > 3.5 - > >> sicherer, schneller und einfacher! > > http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser > >> _______________________________________________ > >> vbox-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > >> > > > > Bruce Mac Arthur > > 15875 Switzer > > Overland Park, KS 66221 > > 913-897-4157 > > [email protected] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vbox-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > Klaus > Bruce Mac Arthur 15875 Switzer Overland Park, KS 66221 913-897-4157 [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Mac Arthur 15875 Switzer Overland Park, KS 66221 913-897-4157 [email protected] _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
