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Hi:

i am running a Fedora Core 8 host and running windows XP on it. I have a Brother multifunction laser printer that I wish to run on the XP guest. However, I can not find a way to make windows XP see it. I read in the manual that:

"Also, VirtualBox can only proxy to virtual machines
USB devices which are not claimed by a Linux host USB driver. Please refer to
the Driver= entry in /proc/bus/usb/devices to see which devices are claimed."

But how does one prevent Linux from capturing the printer device (or how does one make Linux give it up so that Windows XP can start to use it?)

Any hints welcome. thanks.

Gautam

The easiest (especially for first trying if it works) is to just remove the driver that has connects to the printer.

rmmod usblp

might do the trick. (I'm not sure it will be called usblp on your system, so you can try and if it doesn't work, try to figure out what it's called in your case.)

It's after the "Driver=" string in /proc/bus/usb/devices you mentioned.