Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:14:55PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:32:23 -0700
> Aldo Foot wrote:
>
>> I think VirtualBox may be preferred because it appears more
>> manageable in the surface.
> A friend at work who uses it says it is vastly easier to
> do things like pass USB devices through to the virtual hardware
> with VirtualBox than with anything else he has tried,
> so he can do things like use Windows scanner software for
> scanners not supported by anything in linux.
I agree, USB devices are easier to pass through to VirtualBox --
however, I'm testing Rawhide on my personal machine starting this
weekend, which is very close to F11 Beta right now. I'll try to let
the list know what improvements I see in USB device connections to the
guest.
Got a link to the problems people had? I only tried a direct connection to USB
once, as they say "for educational purposes only," but it seemed to work just
fine. So fine, in fact, that I am tempted to access some hardware using an XP in
VM rather than fighting ndiswrapper.
However, I would expect KVM to be the most efficient VM, just because of direct
kernel support. Note, I haven't benchmarked that in any way.
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