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[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>  > On Saturday 29 March 2008, Collins Richey wrote:
>  >  > Currently, for our engineering users, we're providing Linux boxes that
>  >  > utilize Vmplayer to provide Windows XP as well. That has not proved to
>  >  > be 100% reliable. Frequent hangs, and RHEL4 thus far has not provided
>  >  > a kernel that supports the sound card in our current HP desktop boxes.
>  >
>  >  Have you ever tried  VirtualBox...   I used to use VMware (paid for version)
>  >  and it worked so-so but I have found virtualbox to be better, particularly in
>  >  the sound area...
>  >
>
>  I've used the open version of virtual box - no usb support. I
>  understand the subscription version has usb support.
>
>  OTOH, we're milking free software where we can, so ... I doubt  it.
>
>  Our sound problem is a kernel problem. HP switched to a truly oddball
>  card in our latest machines, and redhat RHEL4 is not forthcoming with
>  support. The card probably works in RHEL5, but we have one or more
>  proprietary apps that don't support RHEL5 yet.

Perhaps I'm grossly misunderstanding something about your setup,
however if the host OS has no support for a piece of HW, I don't see
how a guest OS (in vmware, or whatever) is going to work with it
either.  Normally the guest OS just piggybacks on top of the HW
support provided by the host OS.

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