[PLUG] Virtualbox Better Than Qemu-KVM for USB Devices?

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 10 May 2012, Joe Shisei Niski wrote:

> Yes, i've done it with thumb drives, as well as an old HandSpring Visor
> (PalmOS PDA) on WindowsXP SP3 and (thumb drive only) Windows7 (64-bit),
> hosting on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.11.

   Thanks, Joe. I bought win7/home/64-bit just to transfer maps to the Garmin
GPS receivers. I'll install virtualbox this weekend.

> Once upon a time, one had to use the closed-source edition of VirtualBox
> rather than VirtualBox OSE in order to get USB support. i'm not sure
> whether that's still the case.

   Guess I'll find out, eh?

Regards,

Rich