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

[Paul Mullen]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:08:11PM -0700, Scott Garman wrote:
> On 05/10/2012 11:15 AM, Joe Shisei Niski wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It is still the case. And yes, I use VirtualBox with a Windows guest to

There is no closed-source version of VirtualBox as of 4.0.  VirtualBox
itself is completely open source (GPL v2).  Oracle offers a
proprietary "extension pack" which add bonus features.

>From https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News

  December 22, 2010. VirtualBox 4.0 released! Oracle today released
  VirtualBox 4.0, a new major release. It now has an open architecture
  using extension packs and the base package is under GPLv2. See the
  ChangeLog for details.

The base package supports USB 1.1.  The extension pack is required for
USB 2.0.


-- 
Paul