[Klug-general] VirtualBox hogs me printers

[Mike Rentell]

Peter Childs wrote:
> 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.
> 
That's a good idea which had never occurred to me. Now I shall learn 
some more about this topic in the quest to make it work, never done that 
before.
Thanks.
MikeR