Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] VirtualBox and Ifrared devices
2008/11/16 Hugo Mills <hugo@???>: > If you buy a USB IR device with Windows drivers, and map the USB
> port into the guest, then I can see no reason why you couldn't install
> the Windows drivers on the guest and have it all work.
>
Indeed, VirtualBox can be told the USB ID (gleaned from lsusb on the
host) of the device it should present to the guest. I have done this
with my TomTom so that I can put map updates on the device from within
an XP virtual machine.
