wine questions

[Yuri Pankov]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:50:31PM +0000, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Thursday 27 January 2011, Dmitri Brengauz wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Fred <fred at blakemfg.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I need to buy an expensive logic device programmer that connects to
> > > a PC through USB.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Have you tried VirtualBox?   You still have to shell out for a
> > Windows license, but at least the Gates virus will be contained
> > securely on your computer.  For me, Virtual Box + FreeBSD has been
> > running better than VMWare + OS X.  Once again, free software, more
> > than worth the price.
> 
> But VirtualBox OSE doesn't support USB.

VirtualBox 4 *seems* to support USB (I have the option in the GUI,
haven't tried it though). It's available for testing from
http://svn.bluelife.at/ at the moment.

> 
> -- 
> Mike Clarke


HTH,
Yuri