--- On Fri, 9/11/09, Bruce MacArthur <[email protected]> wrote: > Please try again. Identify your Host System.
Linux. 2.6.28 preferred, but I can go one one or two versions on either side of that. > Identify your Guest System. Multiple, but to narrow it down, let's say W2K. > Identify the proposed Application. Again multiple, but for something concrete, say various applications that interface with mobile telecommunication devices. > Identify the problems you > are seeing, and what would constitute success. I have never tried the open source edition, because the documentation says there is no USB support (a complete non-starter for me). If this is not correct, please say so. Generic binary versions, like: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.6/VirtualBox-3.0.6-52128-Linux_x86.run will not run due to missing libraries since they are compiled with gcc 3. > You just might be correct about your completely unspecified > environment -- but you are WRONG to generalize thusly. I > have had it working in Kubuntu Jaunty, VBox 2.1.4_OSE (that > DOES mean "Open Source Edition", or so I suspect.), and > Windows XP Pro. You mean USB in the GUEST operating system (specifically for devices that the host operating system does not support)? > > I can't make the generic version to work on the > > machines I need to have it work on. > > Then just skip it. One way of getting it working is to compile a gcc 4 version. There are already thirty-five different binaries for each virtualbox release, so "one more" would not impose a huge additional workload. :) > > Yes indeed, but adding USB support to the open source > > edition (aside from reinventing the wheel) would not > > be an efficient use of my time. > > Then just WHAT would make it worth the time of someone > else? It's already been done (in the closed source edition), so presumably it would not require a huge effort to include that feature in the open source edition. The justification for not including it ("USB is an enterprise feature") seems rather dubious to me. > Frank has mentioned several versions for a variety of > distros. You don't want one more version -- you want > to double the versions. You are clueless, aren't you? Each version for a specific distribution is built with a toolchain for that version. Without actually examining them, I would assume that for example, the Mandriva 2009.1 binaries were built with Mandriva 2009.1 tools (gcc 4.3.2, glibc 2.9). I am not asking for any additional specific distribution builds - only a more modern "generic" one. > If it isn't worth your time to help, then I hope you > will find something that IS worth your time. I have no objection to helping (I including suggesting new features in that :) ). Heck, I would happily build the modern generic binaries myself if I could. :) Nuzhna _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
