Hope for USB support?

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Wednesday 13 October 2010 18:10:38 Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Brandon Gooch
> <jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com> wrote: I'm very reliant on VirtualBox, I
> suspect many on this list are (or eventually will be), so I'm interested
> in having this support.
> 
> Hans, would this be better handled by the FreeBSD Foundation, or would
> a pool of interested users be an appropriate vessel for the funds
> (assuming it is financially viable -- how much are we talking? ;) ).
> 
> 
> Yeah a good bounty system would be nice to have.  I would contribute to the
> cause in this case.  Unfortunately, I don't think the old bounty system
> where the user promises to pay once something gets there works very well. 
> It would be nice for the FreeBSD Foundation to take collections in escrow
> and offer goals stats for specific projects, but I don't think they do
> that for whatever reason.  If something like that were to become possible,
> making it known via the FreeBSD VirtualBox wiki would be nice.


> Also a side note, USB 2.0 support would be a requirement for a project I
> would contribute too.  USB 1.0/1.1 is not really needed IMO.

Hi,

The virtualbox only has:

./src/VBox/Devices/USB/DevOHCI.cpp

All devices will get emulated like FULL-speed devices. I think this is OK for 
most cases.

If you want to add EHCI support, then we are talking more time to complete.

--HPS