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NoClue
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Post subject: Virtualbox
 Posted: Oct 19, 2008 - 11:37 PM
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...ain't half bad. 
Mrs. NoClue has a Visioneer OneTouch 9320 USB scanner. It does a really good job scanning slides.
Unfortunately, there aren't any drivers for Linux.
I had tried running the software in WINE. No joy.
QEMU doesn't seem to support USB devices. Neither does the Virtualbox OSE (Open Source Edition) available from the repos.
The version of Virtualbox that runs under the PUEL (VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License) does, indeed, support USB devices. I downloaded the RPM from here, and gave it a shot on her freshly-setup openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64, KDE3) box.
I right-clicked on the RPM file and chose 'Open With->Install Software'. It told me that I needed pam-devel. I installed it via YaST and tried it again. It worked.
I went through the wizard, created a virtual drive, and installed Win2000 to it. Easy. Straightforward.
In order to get more than 16 colors (along with a few other nifty things), you need to install the 'Guest Additions' software on the guest OS. That, too, is easy. Fire up the virtual machine, on the menu bar, choose 'Devices->Install Guest Additions', and walk it through the install. It'll reboot, then you can play with your video settings.
It also allows you to set up a shared folder on the host machine, then map it to a drive letter in Windows. Just create the folder on the host OS, then in the guest OS, on the menu bar, choose 'Devices->Shared Folders'. Browse to the folder you created. Once the share is set up, pop into 'Network Places' and enter 'Entire Network'. When you see the share, you can map it to a drive letter, if you wish.
Getting the USB stuff working was a little trickier. It went something like this:
- A group called vboxusers was created for you during the install. Add your user(s) to that group. I did it in YaST.
- You'll need to know that group's number. I think you can see it in YaST, but I just ran:
grep vboxusers /etc/group
In my case, it said:
vboxusers:!:1000:
- As root, open /etc/fstab in your favorite editor. Look for the line that says:
/etc/fstab wrote:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
and change it to:
/etc/fstab wrote:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,devgid=1000,devmode=664 0 0
The 'devgid=' number should equal the number you got from grep above.
- To make sure openSUSE mounts usbfs at boot time, open /etc/init.d/boot.local and add the following line:
mount usbfs
- Mount usbfs by running, as root:
mount -a
...or by rebooting.
- Fire up Virtualbox. Click on 'USB' in the 'Details' pane, enable USB, and 'Add filter from device'...in my case, the scanner.
- Then I fired up the guest OS. At the bottom of the window, there's a little USB icon. I right-clicked on it, and unchecked the scanner, while Windows was booting. The software wants the device to be unplugged while you start the install, then will tell you to plug it in when it's ready for it. I just right-clicked on the USB icon again, and checked off the scanner. It installed the driver, and I clicked 'Finish'. The software found the scanner. I opened up the GIMP and did a test scan. It works.
All in all, Virtualbox is pretty impressive. |
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Klaatu
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Post subject: RE: Virtualbox
Posted: Oct 20, 2008 - 04:43 AM
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hhmmmm...... I'm trying to remember....... this may be one of those "Linux Religion" things. You know, use a crippled version of software because its "pure" and untainted by commercial code I am assuming you used the 2.02 version.
I did all this in the 1.6.6 version that was free. But Sun released their "regular" version of 2.02 on their website and you may not have to do all the work anymore. My fstab looks like your instructions, but I did that for the older version and left it since it worked.
If you are not using the Sun version (I know they are really ALL Sun versions), give it a try. It may be easier to set up. I'm running Win XP and opensuse 11.1 beta 2 (beta 3 is due Monday and I will change) and they run very well with a mere 256 mb of memory allocated to them. One cool thing about VirtualBox is that you can download the iso of a DVD of an OS and mount it as a CD drive and VirtualBox will install it from there. NO DVD burning required!
One thing, though.... I recommend patience. It seems that you need to do a lot of rebooting of the virtual machine before it boots smoothly as a regular installed OS. No problems, just reboots until everything gets "settled." |
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hubtones
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Post subject: Re: RE: Virtualbox
Posted: Oct 21, 2008 - 02:14 AM
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Joined: Feb 28, 2001
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Location: Philadelphia, PA USA
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Klaatu wrote:
hhmmmm...... I'm trying to remember....... this may be one of those "Linux Religion" things. You know, use a crippled version of software because its "pure" and untainted by commercial code I am assuming you used the 2.02 version.
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Anyone using ndiswrapper isn't a purist, it makes use of software for windows that isn't open source and likely never will be. Similarly attempting to use wine for windows software isn't seeking to be purist. Noclue was just finding a solution that worked without running windows. I know, I've been there, done that with things like trying to trying to use a winmodem as an answering machine under Linux, or getting a Verizon card to work under Linux. |
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