Bruce MacArthur wrote:
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.
And it is opensource :-) , if some feature is closed nothing can stop
you from implementing it and release on opensource basis .
VirtualBox OSE is AFAIR GPL'ed
From my part I want express my gratitude to Sun for Openoffice ,Vbox ,
etc.:-) I hope this attitude will not change after takeover by Oracle :-)
Regards
Maciek Kaliszewski
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