[Klug-general] VirtualBox hogs me printers

[Peter Childs]

2008/8/28 Mike Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>:
> Good morning all,
>
> VirtualBox works a treat for me as I have to use WinXP for an accounts
> program. Hosted on Mandriva 2008 everything works fine, except that with
> VB working it hogs the printers and any printing done in parallel Linux
> programs doesn't appear. When I shutdown VB I have to switch the
> printers off and on again to get whatever Linux sent to CUPS in the
> meanwhile.
>
> Bit niggling. Anyone know a wrinkle that might help?
>
> Ta
>
> mikeR
>

Simplest method is probably to connect to the printer over the network
(ie the virtual network card and samba) and not give the Virtual
machine direct access to the printer.

Peter.