On 2014-05-05 19:14, John Andersen wrote:
On 5/5/2014 2:59 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-05-05 11:31, ellanios82 wrote:
- overall, perhaps there may be less sweat running Windows on a Linux Virtual Box ?
Yes, of course. It depends what you need it for, though. A TomTom navigator model I tried failed to connect, for instance.
Very little experience with Linux Virtual Box, but in Vmware this works fine for having the VM grab the USB ports. Perhaps there is a setting in Virtual Box to have it grab the USB port and assign it to the VM ahead of time so that Linux gets out of the way?
It was vmware, server at the time, player later perhaps. No, it actually worked for a year or so, then they suddenly changed something in the "driver" and it stopped working. I posted on their forum, never got an answer. All other use devices used on that or other virtual machines kept working, it just the tomtom. I then had to forcibly replace the tomtom (aka was stolen), and I used the "real" windows 7 in my laptop instead, never tried to install the gadget app virtually (XP). I use that laptop Windows install solely to maintain my hardware gadget collection, they all require Windows even if they run Linux inside (all of them, AFAIK). Everytime I have to do things on them, say once or twice a month, I have to boot Windows and wait for it to update the antivirus and things, itself, and the gadget applications. Then I can update my gadgets (maps, books, etc). At my 1 Mbit/s adsl rate, it takes hours. Pain in the... you know where. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)