Further to Jonny’s post in this forum, instead of hijacking the topic I thought I would start my own thread instead! Hope the admins don’t mind too much!!
I am wondering if there is a VM solution that supports USB in the guest OS (which will be Win XP)?
I have tried Virtualbox but no matter what I do, I can not get it to see any USB devices I plug into the host 
Any ideas please?
You can install XP on VMware server (that’s the free version of VMware) It has USB support of XP.
FFI: Install VMware server in Suse / openSUSE 10 11 & USB support
badger fruit wrote:
> Further to Jonny’s post in this forum, instead of hijacking the topic I
> thought I would start my own thread instead! Hope the admins don’t mind
> too much!!
>
>
> I am wondering if there is a VM solution that supports USB in the guest
> OS (which will be Win XP)?
>
> I have tried Virtualbox but no matter what I do, I can not get it to
> see any USB devices I plug into the host
>
> Any ideas please?
>
>
Depends on your needs, but though I had XP running in VB recognising the
USB devices I have changed to using a share pointing to the media folder
(as mention in an earlier thread). This seems more reliable and does
everything I need at this time - XP usage is going down steadily 
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PeeGee
Asus M2V-MX SE, AMD 64X2 3800+, openSuSE 10.3 x86-64/XP Home dual boot
Asus M2NPV-VM, AMD LE1640, openSuSE 11.0 x86-64/XP Home dual boot
swerdna wrote:
>
> You can install XP on VMware server (that’s the free version of VMware)
> It has USB support of XP.
> FFI: ‘Install VMware server in a Suse / openSUSE & USB support’
> (http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtovmwareserversuse.html)
>
>
I moved from VMWare server because it would only support 2 usb devices at
one time. VB does not have that limitation. Do a search for usb + suse in
the linux host forum on virtualbox.org. You will find instructions on what
to do to add a statement to your fstab file. In fact if you search on my
name aemau you will what you need.
Allan