From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 12:39:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 489F3106564A for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:39:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexeichi@yahoo.de) Received: from nm7.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (nm7.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.182.248]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B08E88FC1B for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.146.183.215] by nm7.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Oct 2010 12:25:46 -0000 Received: from [217.146.183.72] by tm8.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Oct 2010 12:25:45 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1033.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Oct 2010 12:25:45 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 360103.44453.bm@omp1033.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 61152 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Oct 2010 12:25:45 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.de; s=s1024; t=1286972745; bh=IIgthUTSbINijAyZq01hdsO1LYfDJqkgXTEg5xn5XMg=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=sEUbyjrjQO9PMVEfUf1fQdGGFfM/qNsUKC62tDCrA3ePT6vW7ozH88KCUbrTHT/DpkY9DeeyfHtZJ/tuvwAZGniT2/lNTVl+9UZUdv7YA7svMFlcKoooFFY4LaRwfJdlppRY4UKUPgbnonRks96qF8PPYGOeP29OZEkeXBedyB4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.de; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=HIEZCW/f3g8Xwz3ypCw7u3br4X6cZmc7Mi5pcrUB+mrOS3cYYHFRIR1nCC5nXqgUQ/8M71VYmFluNu5rszAMwDPQnIy/QJw7/Qf7n/eUZ+PSsSvhWyBYbdNwNuvdtjyVUrnqqPL0kPIInY5qfNHiXHpS6TH9+96Rl0ECacsIAIk=; Message-ID: <250836.55526.qm@web27604.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: ymKl6lsVM1krzLqKSdwRCj2JfaXdWfh95l2g528fKqWFziW iTqtn8J8khTEDp8Thug6ZUmMKWZLX2fd5xcmKgSeiPuXvJig34UpzDSSZ0od 4kWNCicvzvcDUNXd4kkzKKUXlYPKFENRKBbsNuMmryc4m8UTgoM7OGZTh11p f3GvXWPY8_eG0n702113zUZhnlsQb.shGWkG8MRxUuiOkYZNh30kKGEnZx70 Oj9ZF_UtqAjgv0qUX9y1FZFpbIGNwJKufvKtVA6o9kNJ5oHwpKtUWB7xExGW d_lMhU2l04uf1_Wu0RWFf8oJiOyXEAcgy4sHAGrQNkrbB4XukVA-- Received: from [79.194.42.215] by web27604.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:25:45 BST X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.4.9 YahooMailWebService/0.8.106.282862 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:25:45 +0100 (BST) From: Alexander Eichner To: "Sam Fourman Jr." , Kevin Oberman , Bernhard Froehlich In-Reply-To: <1286863931.3034.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hope for USB support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:39:15 -0000 --- Bernhard Froehlich schrieb am Di, 12.10.2010:=0A=0A= > Von: Bernhard Froehlich =0A> Betreff: Re: Hope for USB= support?=0A> An: "Sam Fourman Jr." , "Kevin Oberman" <= oberman@es.net>=0A> CC: emulation@freebsd.org=0A> Datum: Dienstag, 12. Okto= ber, 2010 08:12 Uhr=0A> ----- Urspr=FCngliche Mitteilung=0A> -----=0A> > On= Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Kevin Oberman =0A> wrote:= =0A> > > I know that it is a long shot, especially with=0A> Oracle at the h= elm VB on=0A> > > the corporate side, but USB support for=0A> VirtualBox is= the one piece I=0A> > > am missing that forces me to keep a bootable=0A> W= indows system around.=0A> > > =0A> > > Is there any hope of seeing USB on V= B with=0A> FreeBSD as the host and=0A> > > Windows as the guest OS?=0A> > = =0A> > I could use this as well, and I know of at least 2=0A> others.=0A> >= =0A> > I guess a good starting point would be to ask, what is=0A> the scop= e of=0A> > work that needs to be done to add USB support to=0A> Virtual box= in=0A> > FreeBSD=0A> =0A> That work has already been done. I know that Ale= xander=0A> Eichner has already working USB support since some time. I=0A> w= as also told that the only possible way of getting a PUEL=0A> version with = USB support is if a company is interested in=0A> it. So that will probably = cost some money. But if you are=0A> actually interested in it please ask th= e virtualbox people=0A> from oracle about it because I don't even know how = much=0A> money they want for it.=0A> =0A> --=0A> Bernhard Fr=F6hlich=0A> ht= tp://www.bluelife.at/=0A=0Aworking USB support is a bit excessive ;). The c= ode is very sketchy and was tested only with USB mass storage devices. Ther= e is still a lot of work to be done until it is stable and can be used in a= productive environment. One missing part is a kernel driver which captures= the devices to prevent others from accessing the device.=0AUSB 1.1 is open= source since some time now btw. so everyone can have a look and improve th= e code.=0A=0ASee http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/U= SB/freebsd=0Aand http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Main/free= bsd/USBProxyServiceFreeBSD.cpp for example.=0A=0A