Chuffed: USB devices working in VirtualBox

[.Froot.]

As long as you have enough windows licences (product keys) to cover the number of VM's running, you should be fine.

Like that's going to happen

 

[.Froot.]

let me rephrase that, I like to play around with Linux my work laptop I normally keep one distro on, was Mandriva for the last two years now been running opensuse 11.1 for the last week, but used to annoy me was everytime I re-installed Linux or tried a different distro I had to re-do my "windoze" installation now I just backup the .vdi harddrive and once I have VB running I just use the same "windoze harddrive". That way I dont have to re-install all the software everytime, makes life simpler and I am a simple fella after all.

Ah... yes that is fine... well as long as it's not an OEM cd used for another pc.... ;p

 

[BigAl-sa]

I've modified the instructions on my blog page. I found a section that was unnecessary and added one that is necessary. Hope it helps some poor soul using Ubuntu.

 

[Asha'man X]

With regards to my post, I was thinking of the installation of the version you get from Sun, not the version in the repos. Software in repos really makes a world of difference for ease of use.

The instructions I saw included adding people to the wheel or root group, and plenty of other steps.

Anyway, Vbox rules

 

[.Froot.]

On the VBox site there is a repository entry for the official VBox. I used that and it made installing it as easy as vbox-ose.