USB redirection into a virtual machine (was: Re: Linux has won!)

[Omer Zak]

On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 19:22 +0300, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> 2011/4/3 Steve G. <wordz2u at gmail.com>
>         
>         So I have it in use 5 minutes every couple of days, and the
>         rest is pure Linux.
> 
> 
> Why don't you use a virtual machine. I think some of them can redirect
> USB from host to virtual system. 

At least in the case of VirtualBox, USB can be redirected from host to
virtual machine.
When you are running a virtual machine, VirtualBox offers a menu and one
of the menu options is to open a list of USB devices connected to the
host and make it possible for you to select some of them for redirection
to the virtual machine.
Note that the keyboard and mouse receive special handling.

--- Omer


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