Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:34:19 +0000 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> To: Alexander Eichner <alexeichi@yahoo.de> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hope for USB support? Message-ID: <9ea5724115bd7f0c4e1ebdba8222f175@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <250836.55526.qm@web27604.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <250836.55526.qm@web27604.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:25:45 +0100 (BST), Alexander Eichner <alexeichi@yahoo.de> wrote: > --- Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> schrieb am Di, 12.10.2010: > >> Von: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> >> Betreff: Re: Hope for USB support? >> An: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> >> CC: emulation@freebsd.org >> Datum: Dienstag, 12. Oktober, 2010 08:12 Uhr >> ----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung >> ----- >> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> >> wrote: >> > > I know that it is a long shot, especially with >> Oracle at the helm VB on >> > > the corporate side, but USB support for >> VirtualBox is the one piece I >> > > am missing that forces me to keep a bootable >> Windows system around. >> > > >> > > Is there any hope of seeing USB on VB with >> FreeBSD as the host and >> > > Windows as the guest OS? >> > >> > I could use this as well, and I know of at least 2 >> others. >> > >> > I guess a good starting point would be to ask, what is >> the scope of >> > work that needs to be done to add USB support to >> Virtual box in >> > FreeBSD >> >> That work has already been done. I know that Alexander >> Eichner has already working USB support since some time. I >> was also told that the only possible way of getting a PUEL >> version with USB support is if a company is interested in >> it. So that will probably cost some money. But if you are >> actually interested in it please ask the virtualbox people >> from oracle about it because I don't even know how much >> money they want for it. >> >> -- >> Bernhard Fröhlich >> http://www.bluelife.at/ > > working USB support is a bit excessive ;). The code is very sketchy > and was tested only with USB mass storage devices. There 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. > USB 1.1 is open source since some time now btw. so everyone can have > a look and improve the code. > > See http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/USB/freebsd > and > http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Main/freebsd/USBProxyServiceFreeBSD.cpp > for example. Ah great. That's what this USB configuration in the GUI of trunk is used for. We just discovered it at the DevSummit in Karlsruhe but had no time yet to play around with it. This will be available in the next major vbox release then. -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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