VirtualBox

[l2ulinux]

I hope I have posted this in the right area.

I wanted to know how hard it would be to run Windows 7 in VirtualBox?
I have a Kodak ESP Office 2150 printer. There is no driver for Linux that
will work with it at this time. What I want to know is there away to run
Win 7 in VirtualBox to do my printing an maybe Firefox.
I have never run VirtualBox before.
ANY AND ALL THE MORE HELP NEEDED....

[CharlieBros]

Search a guide about Virtualbox in Google.
Charlie

[oboedad55]

I hope I have posted this in the right area.

I wanted to know how hard it would be to run Windows 7 in VirtualBox?
I have a Kodak ESP Office 2150 printer. There is no driver for Linux that
will work with it at this time. What I want to know is there away to run
Win 7 in VirtualBox to do my printing an maybe Firefox.
I have never run VirtualBox before.
ANY AND ALL THE MORE HELP NEEDED....

No reason why it wouldn't work. I've run XP and Windows 7 in VirtualBox on Fedora 16 with no problems. There is tons of info on the Internet about VirtualBox so you should have no difficulties.

[l2ulinux]

I was not putting Linux down by no means. What I want to do is use Linux most of the time.
I see no sense in getting a new printer at this time. Also that would let me use Linux to run
Windos and not let M/S run me.

[oboedad55]

I was not putting Linux down by no means. What I want to do is use Linux most of the time.
I see no sense in getting a new printer at this time. Also that would let me use Linux to run
Windos and not let M/S run me.

I didn't get the impression you were down on Linux. Even if you were, it would be fine with me. For some odd reason XP actually runs better in a virtual machine than it does natively for me.

[winstonteacox]

Hi,

I use VB with a XP Guest because of a film scanner, It works without problems.

Normally, VB should run ok, but you may encounter problems with usb-support.

There are two things you should do:

Download the VB-extension pack matching your VB-version from virtualbox.org. Install it via the plugin/extensions menu in VB.
You can also simply doubleclick on the extension-file, but I had one case, where this didn't work. From the VB menu, it works always.


Add your user in /etc/groups to

usb
vbuser
lp

(simply edit the file and attach your user to the lines. For ex. : 43:usb:bernd)

then reboot. Now you should have usb 2.0 support with Virtualbox.

Hope this helps.

cheers,
Bernd

[doktor5000]

For linux printer driver, did you already take a look at http://www.openprinting.org/driver/c2esp or maybe http://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsdriverkodak/support ?

BTW: "Shouting" (as indicated by using uppercase letters or words in some kind of signal colour, or even a combination) won't draw more attention, often it will backfire and some people won't like to respond as much as when you just ask in a more "normal" way. At least that's my personal opinion ...