re: [opensuse] VirtualBox & XP-pro & serial madness
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 09:29 -0600, Stevens wrote:
Tom:
Read your post about VB, XP and serial port stuff.
Do I understand you correctly that you have VB running on a Linux host with XP guest AND it recognizes a usb device?
If so, please give me some details on how to do that. I am running opensuse 10.2, kernet 2.6.18.
Thanks, Fred
Fred, good morning, I'll have to think back thru all the attempts to figure out a step-by-step, it was a rather hacked way I went about it, since I had forgotten several admin things that always irked me with windoz! I imagine that your problem may be that the open-source release of VB does not include usb support _at all_. You need to get http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE102-... the binary install for 10.2. I'm using 10.3 32-bit version, but others in their forum are using 10.2, so good luck. Remove the Oss version (but don't delete the XP guest files). Install VB closed-source, attach the original virtual files, insert the usb device, and launch VB. Do NOT launch the guest yet... If you get there, you will see a USB item in the VB details tab. (I think you _have_ to insert the usb device B4 launching VB.) In the USB dialog, there is a filter section. The small icons at the right indicate known usb devices, add the one you wish to use (in my case it is the Belkin converter dongle). I would add JUST the device of interest, not all of them. Next, start the XP guest, and do all the crap XP needs to use the device. I DL'd the belkin driver, burned it to a cd, and ran the Belkin installer. XP installed the device as com4, and I can copy the GPS sentences out of my Garmin (with [ugh] Hyperterm). I have not verified if it will work with my radio application, but it looks very promising now. Hope that helps, Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Tom Patton wrote:
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 09:29 -0600, Stevens wrote:
Tom:
Read your post about VB, XP and serial port stuff.
Do I understand you correctly that you have VB running on a Linux host with XP guest AND it recognizes a usb device?
If so, please give me some details on how to do that. I am running opensuse 10.2, kernet 2.6.18.
Thanks, Fred
Fred, good morning,
I'll have to think back thru all the attempts to figure out a step-by-step, it was a rather hacked way I went about it, since I had forgotten several admin things that always irked me with windoz!
I imagine that your problem may be that the open-source release of VB does not include usb support _at all_. You need to get http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE102-...
the binary install for 10.2. I'm using 10.3 32-bit version, but others in their forum are using 10.2, so good luck.
Remove the Oss version (but don't delete the XP guest files). Install VB closed-source, attach the original virtual files, insert the usb device, and launch VB. Do NOT launch the guest yet...
If you get there, you will see a USB item in the VB details tab. (I think you _have_ to insert the usb device B4 launching VB.) In the USB dialog, there is a filter section. The small icons at the right indicate known usb devices, add the one you wish to use (in my case it is the Belkin converter dongle). I would add JUST the device of interest, not all of them.
Next, start the XP guest, and do all the crap XP needs to use the device. I DL'd the belkin driver, burned it to a cd, and ran the Belkin installer.
XP installed the device as com4, and I can copy the GPS sentences out of my Garmin (with [ugh] Hyperterm). I have not verified if it will work with my radio application, but it looks very promising now.
Hope that helps,
Tom in NM
I've found its better to leave the filters out of the initial setup and after starting xp, plug in usb device and then use the devices menu on the vbox window to enable the device. Another tip is to completely uninstall the suse virtual box, including the kernel module, as yast won't make you do so, before installing VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE102-1.i586.rpm . It contains everything it needs. It has a comprehensive help system too. Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 19:14 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
Tom Patton wrote:
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 09:29 -0600, Stevens wrote:
I've found its better to leave the filters out of the initial setup and after starting xp, plug in usb device and then use the devices menu on the vbox window to enable the device. Another tip is to completely uninstall the suse virtual box, including the kernel module, as yast won't make you do so, before installing VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE102-1.i586.rpm . It contains everything it needs. It has a comprehensive help system too. Dave
Thanks, Dave, I should have expounded on removing the OSS version and driver first. I rmmod'd the driver, then rpm -e'd the virtualbox OSS rpm before I installed the 1.5.4 version. Thanks for reminding me. Now that I have it working, I will try your method, and see if "hot-plug" will work. It should, unless they have a bug in VB. I do think it is a bug for VB to not allow the serial access to ttyUSB0, but that is a subject for their forum, I guess. Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 12:16 -0700, Tom Patton wrote:
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 19:14 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
Tom Patton wrote:
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 09:29 -0600, Stevens wrote:
I've found its better to leave the filters out of the initial setup and after starting xp, plug in usb device and then use the devices menu on the vbox window to enable the device.
Now that I have it working, I will try your method, and see if "hot-plug" will work. It should, unless they have a bug in VB.
Dave, it seems hot-plugging works fine. I have repeatedly swapped from the Belkin dongle to an ICOM radio USB programming cable, and each time they have worked well. I simply left both items active in the VB filter menu, and the XP guest was able to keep track of which one I had in the side port of my Thinkpad R40 laptop. XP would give the Belkin com3, and the ICOM cable com4...(without restarts of the guest...). I still think VB should pass through the dongle as ttyUSB0, and let SuSE handle it...but it works this way, so far. Pretty cool...I guess. Tom in NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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