On Wednesday October 31 2007 17:29, Pavel Troller wrote: > > Try VirtualBox [1] (I really like it with Seamless Mode turned on) or > > VMWare [2]. VirtualBox is free, VMWare isn't. I think that VirtualBox > > should work with no problems with your dongles (and with any Windows > > software that needs these dongles). > > In practice, USB support in VirtualBox works great in most cases but > > sometimes not. If USB doesn't work for you in VirtualBox then read > > http://virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ and "Troubleshooting" -> "Linux > > hosts" in the http://virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf . > > If still doesn't work then try VMWare instead. > > Hmm.. > I've looked at the virtualbox site and I've found that their OSE (Open > Source Edition) doesn't contain USB support. But you can download VirtualBox with USB support for free. This is better than nothing... > It's a stopper for me as my > policy is "not to accept any binary packages" on my system. They decided to > remove it from the OSE because they count it as an "Enterprise feature". > They probably think that home machines are not using USB, that people don't > have mobile phones, GPS receivers, or simply any other USB devices > unsupported in Linux. With regards, Pavel Troller I agree - this is really stupid. I remember that QEmu accelator was proprietary non-free software but was freely downloadable. After some time it was released as open-source. Hopefully at some point VirtualBox developers make similar decision to release USB support as open source too. I think that QEmu has USB support (read its man page for more information). But I have no idea how well it will work in practice - I never tested it. You can try it yourself: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html . _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
