On Friday 11 September 2009 12:04:31 am Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: > I want to try out Virtualbox. I absolutely require USB support. > I don't understand why this is an "enterprise" feature. RDP? Yes. > USB? No. > > It seems that the generic binaries are compiled with gcc 3, for > some reason I absolutely can not fathom. Gcc 4 has been out for > more than four years now - an eternity in the world of software. > > I run built from scratch distributions on my machines, with gcc > 4.3.x and either glibc 2.8 or 2.9. Will any of the available > binaries work with this combination, and if not, can someone > build one that will? I assume that the builds are automated, > and that adding one more would require too much additional work. > > Thank you in advance. > > Nuzhna
Simply stated, I have NO idea what you really want. In other words, what specific situation would make you happy? In my view (which may well be defective at this point) VirtualBox and USB are ENTIRELY unrelated. Let me explain that remark. If you have Kubuntu Jaunty as your Host System, you already know that your host system supports "most" USB devices. And this has absolutely NOTHING to do with VirtualBox. Now you install VirtualBox. Is Jaunty support of USB somehow compromised? Not at all. Now, within Jaunty --> VirtualBox, you install Windows 3.1 as a Guest System (or Client System). Can you use USB within your Windows environment? No way! But neither of us has ever heard of Win31 support for USB, have we? So what else is new? Now install, as a second Guest System, something such as Windows XP Pro. Did WinXPPro support USB? Most of the time, yes. Does it here in VirtualBox? Same answer. *DUH!* Win98 is variable. USB 1.1 usually worked; USB 2.0 did not -- until the SE version! I would expect precisely the same of "virtualized Win98". Concerning your "compiled binaries", I have no business making any comment beyond this. You make it sound as if you are running something that nobody else is running -- and asking us if YOUR stuff will work. That sounds one step short of silly to me; after all, how would anyone be able to know from experience if a totally customized system will work ANYwhere! Remember that Virtualbox is available -- even in the latest (3.0.6) version -- for absolutely NO money at all. If you can customize a "distro" that highly, you should be able to make most of it work in VirtualBox. Try it out. If you CAN'T make it work, simply uninstall it and go back to whatever works for you. That is the situation in which you have long-since chosen to place yourself. I myself am running Jaunty. At this moment, I am using VirtualBox 2.1.4_OSE. I tried Win98 (the original edition!), and was NOT happy with it; it was slow when it ran, and it did not like to run. I got rid of the Win98. I installed Win XP Pro, and was very happy for a time. More recently, it is giving me some "fits", and I have not *YET* found the solution. Perhaps it is in 3.0.6; perhaps it is elsewhere. The ONLY problem I have had relating to USB is that Wacom Bamboo does NOT start anything on the desktop -- although it WILL start things from the Task-Bar!!! And this is true of both Host and Guest Systems. I have heard that this is an issue known to Wacom and that work is in progress to correct the situation.. Maybe you will have a similar experience. That is Linux -- especially when it is highly customized. Good luck!!! Bruce Mac Arthur _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
