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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
To: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru>
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Subject: Re: virtualbox-ose and host usb devices
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:31:24AM +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> Looks like host usb devices are not supported in virtualbox-ose-3.1.2.
> 
> Is it planned to enable host usb devices in virtualbox VMs ?
> What are the obstacles ?

That is only available in the closed source edition for which they have
not yet released a FreeBSD version.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions


Andrew