Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:25:45 +0100 (BST) From: Alexander Eichner <alexeichi@yahoo.de> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hope for USB support? Message-ID: <250836.55526.qm@web27604.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1286863931.3034.2.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11>
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--- Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> schrieb am Di, 12.10.2010:=0A=0A= > Von: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at>=0A> Betreff: Re: Hope for USB= support?=0A> An: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, "Kevin Oberman" <= oberman@es.net>=0A> CC: emulation@freebsd.org=0A> Datum: Dienstag, 12. Okto= ber, 2010 08:12 Uhr=0A> ----- Urspr=FCngliche Mitteilung=0A> -----=0A> > On= Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>=0A> wrote:= =0A> > > I know that it is a long shot, especially with=0A> Oracle at the h= elm VB on=0A> > > the corporate side, but USB support for=0A> VirtualBox is= the one piece I=0A> > > am missing that forces me to keep a bootable=0A> W= indows system around.=0A> > > =0A> > > Is there any hope of seeing USB on V= B with=0A> FreeBSD as the host and=0A> > > Windows as the guest OS?=0A> > = =0A> > I could use this as well, and I know of at least 2=0A> others.=0A> >= =0A> > I guess a good starting point would be to ask, what is=0A> the scop= e of=0A> > work that needs to be done to add USB support to=0A> Virtual box= in=0A> > FreeBSD=0A> =0A> That work has already been done. I know that Ale= xander=0A> Eichner has already working USB support since some time. I=0A> w= as also told that the only possible way of getting a PUEL=0A> version with = USB support is if a company is interested in=0A> it. So that will probably = cost some money. But if you are=0A> actually interested in it please ask th= e virtualbox people=0A> from oracle about it because I don't even know how = much=0A> money they want for it.=0A> =0A> --=0A> Bernhard Fr=F6hlich=0A> ht= tp://www.bluelife.at/=0A=0Aworking USB support is a bit excessive ;). The c= ode is very sketchy and was tested only with USB mass storage devices. Ther= e is still a lot of work to be done until it is stable and can be used in a= productive environment. One missing part is a kernel driver which captures= the devices to prevent others from accessing the device.=0AUSB 1.1 is open= source since some time now btw. so everyone can have a look and improve th= e code.=0A=0ASee http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Devices/U= SB/freebsd=0Aand http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Main/free= bsd/USBProxyServiceFreeBSD.cpp for example.=0A=0A
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