Help sought RE: VB Windows drivers
Posted: 24. Jun 2013, 23:51
Hi there.
We're having trouble trouble finding somebody who can help us with a few driver related issues for VB on a windows host. They are more closely defined here:
1. Created independent executables that install VirtualBox drivers correctly according to instructions at the bottom of the Windows Build Instructions page on the wiki (We're interested in running the intermediate driver installers on our own).
2. Create a process to robustly ensure USB driver prioritization upon connection of new USB device. We need to automate the process of manually selecting a driver location rather than letting Windows decide on the standard location. You could do that by editing the Windows standard location, but we are open to alternative ways of doing this too. Presently when a USB device is connected then Windows will want to identify it and will search for drivers, but we'd like to direct Windows to use the VirtualBox driver even if a driver for that device already exists and is installed (we may need to disable it temporarily). An example of prior success in this is that there are companies who have developed technology to forward arbitrary USB devices over the network, and in working on this you'll have an opportunity to enhance an open source project with greater functionality and stability.
We don't actually have anybody who can do this inhouse right now, so if anybody knows someone who'd like to do a bit of freelancing on this, much obliged. If you think this is not the right place to post such a request, then I am sorry - no offence meant: Please point me to better places if you could!
Much obliged!
Andre
We're having trouble trouble finding somebody who can help us with a few driver related issues for VB on a windows host. They are more closely defined here:
1. Created independent executables that install VirtualBox drivers correctly according to instructions at the bottom of the Windows Build Instructions page on the wiki (We're interested in running the intermediate driver installers on our own).
2. Create a process to robustly ensure USB driver prioritization upon connection of new USB device. We need to automate the process of manually selecting a driver location rather than letting Windows decide on the standard location. You could do that by editing the Windows standard location, but we are open to alternative ways of doing this too. Presently when a USB device is connected then Windows will want to identify it and will search for drivers, but we'd like to direct Windows to use the VirtualBox driver even if a driver for that device already exists and is installed (we may need to disable it temporarily). An example of prior success in this is that there are companies who have developed technology to forward arbitrary USB devices over the network, and in working on this you'll have an opportunity to enhance an open source project with greater functionality and stability.
We don't actually have anybody who can do this inhouse right now, so if anybody knows someone who'd like to do a bit of freelancing on this, much obliged. If you think this is not the right place to post such a request, then I am sorry - no offence meant: Please point me to better places if you could!
Much obliged!
Andre