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#348 Plug external USB device to VM

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2012-10-15
2005-09-20
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I know there are few very old request for this.
I love to use this software and replace current VMwa..
I must use external USB devices such as USB smartcard
readers and USB printers in-side the VM.

So I hope you consider adding this feature soon...

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  • Ben Lunt

    Ben Lunt - 2005-10-02

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    Hi,

    I have thought about including this support for some time.
    However, each platform, and each version of each platform
    would need it's own version of software to do this. This
    means that someone would have to write a driver for each
    Windows version of Bochs, each Linux version, BeOS, etc.

    This is the reason that I haven't done this yet. This doesn't
    mean that I won't at some time or another, write a driver for
    WinXP, but at the moment, I just don't have the time to
    spend the time it would require to make the transition from
    the bochs VM to the host as host independant as possible.

    Sorry for the bad news, but don't give up.

    Ben

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    can libusb or libusb-win32 help?

     
  • Ben Lunt

    Ben Lunt - 2005-12-10

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    Hi,

    I haven't looked at them yet, so I haven't
    a clue :-)

    Ben

     

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