From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 11:56:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5881065674 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:56:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net (relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net [212.159.7.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD3A8FC08 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:56:06 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvAFAN02Qk1UXebj/2dsb2JhbACWYY4fc7tfhU8E Received: from outmx01.plus.net ([84.93.230.227]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2011 11:27:07 +0000 Received: from helix.plus.com ([84.92.153.232] helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by outmx01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1PimTr-0004Ud-5G; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:27:07 +0000 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PimTp-0000xi-Pl; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:27:05 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:27:05 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4D41BDF6.5080904@blakemfg.com> <201101272250.31601.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20110127232212.GD63800@darklight.org.ru> In-Reply-To: <20110127232212.GD63800@darklight.org.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201101281127.05679.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Yuri Pankov Subject: Re: wine questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:56:07 -0000 On Thursday 27 January 2011, Yuri Pankov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:50:31PM +0000, Mike Clarke wrote: [snip] > > But VirtualBox OSE doesn't support USB. > > VirtualBox 4 *seems* to support USB (I have the option in the GUI, > haven't tried it though). It's available for testing from > http://svn.bluelife.at/ at the moment. That's very welcome news. I have a USB printer (Canon iP4500) which works very well with FreeBSD as far as printing is concerned but it's a bit of a pain having to move it over to a Windows PC if I want to run any of the utilities like checking ink levels or head cleaning. USB support with VirtualBox would be very useful for that. I'm usually rather hesitant when it comes to experimenting with 'bleeding edge' versions of software but I'm seriously tempted to give this one a try. -- Mike Clarke