Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:25:45 +0100 (BST) From: Alexander Eichner <alexeichi@yahoo.de> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hope for USB support? Message-ID: <250836.55526.qm@web27604.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1286863931.3034.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11>
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--- 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.
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