[PLUG] VirtualBox on Slackware

[Dick Steffens]

On 12/1/18 1:21 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> Once I get to VirtualBox, I note that this is the open source 
>> version. For
>> the laptop, that's probably okay. But for my "work" machine, I need to
>> have USB functionality that is only in the Oracle provided version. I 
>> use
>> a program only available for Windows, and it uses a USB footpedal that
>> isn't recognized by the open source version of VirtualBox.
>
> Dick,
>
>   Does qemu support a USB foot pedal? I have qemu on a laptop but haven't
> had a need to access anything external with it. There is a qemu 
> package on
> Slackbuilds.org.

I don't know. I haven't studied QEMU enough. It's worth a look, but it 
would me rebuilding my virtual machines, which I wouldn't have to do 
with VirtualBox.


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Regards,

Dick Steffens