Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 16:11:30 +0000 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to make smooth USB access available to Virtualbox vm Message-ID: <VI1PR02MB0974F7A195DEB838C0BD3993F6390@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <20160705165629.2c2f6a24.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <VI1PR02MB0974C9E557F7FEBCA7D7B4FCF6380@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <CAFYkXjnn3gOXAj8jAxqGqy0z0kcEFUf5jvixgO9pwGw_g=uNBg@mail.gmail.com> <20160705083230.47d99a62.freebsd@edvax.de> <VI1PR02MB09744511B04DD7E41AAB6A33F6390@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20160705165629.2c2f6a24.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 07/05/16 20:26, Polytropon wrote: > No. The worst solution prevails, so we're basically stuck wuth USB. > Sure, there is Firewire, but who uses that? Or external SATA disks > or SSDs, which requires an eSATA port on the machines involved. The whole vbox experiment started with the idea of making my scanner=20 available to the vm. Now, with no USB, there seems no way of making the=20 Canon USB scanner work under the vm. Surprisingly, the list of filters=20 in vbox manager do not even list the Canon scanner - despite the fact=20 that the scanner has been switched on, and usbconfig clearly shows this : ugen2.6: <MG2400 series Canon> at usbus2, cfg=3D0 md=3DHOST spd=3DHIGH=20 (480Mbps) pwr=3DON (2mA) Does that mean, if I can't get the scanner to work with sane/xsane,=20 there is no way except to actually boot XP? The USB situation is a puzzle : it is not as if vbox cleanly bars USB=20 access. I actually managed to access my pendrive for about 10 seconds -=20 just enough to do copy out the data I needed on the VM. So I could do=20 the work - but given the situation, there is no to be sure USB access=20 would be available for any length of time in the vm. But, for the moment, there is a solution - shared folders via vbox Guest=20 Additions (VGA). Although VGA is apparently not open source, but at=20 least I can download the iso image and make shared folders available to=20 the vm. That makes it possible to transfer data in and out of the vm. But that does not yet resolve the scanner situation as of yet. --=20 Regards Manish Jain
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