Re: VirtualBox Extensions Pack (for USB and Video)

Goran Mekić <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.usb,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11,gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
As far as I know bhyve doesn't have USB passthroug which I understand you're after. It might be false as I didn't check since last year

On 7 May 2019 16:44:45 CEST, Tomasz CEDRO <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:40 PM Johannes Lundberg <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> On 5/7/19 7:26 AM, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:11 PM Johannes Lundberg
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> On 5/6/19 12:42 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> >>> On 2019-05-06 20:49, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
>> >>>> @HPS have you ever considered such operation? If the FreeBSD's
>USB can
>> >>>> be shared to the userland, maybe that could be also shared to
>the
>> >>>> Virtual Machine?
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>> The problem is inside VBOX, that the USB APIs only support USB
>1.x and
>> >>> not in FreeBSD from what I understand last time I checked.
>> >>> --HPS
>> >> Maybe bhyve is an option? I have completely replaced virtualbox
>with
>> >> bhyve for my vms and loving it but I haven't tested it with usb
>yet.
>> > Hmm, thanks Johannes for that hint.. can you run Windoze (yuck),
>Linux
>> > and other stuff as full hypervisor or does this work more like
>> > separated dedicated FreeBSD Jail?
>>
>> I haven't tried Windows but it's supposed to work. I'm running Ubuntu
>> successfully with graphical desktop in bhyve. It uses VNC for the
>> graphical interface so it's not the best experience but it's usable
>if
>> you don't have too high requirements. Mostly my VMs are headless.
>>
>> Check
>https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/virtualization-host-bhyve.html
>>
>> For managing my VMs I like this one
>https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve
>
>Sounds really nice and what I need! More than that we would develop
>true Open-Source solution :-)
>
>Thank you Johannes !! :-)
>
>Best regards :-)
>Tomek
>
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