[Klug-general] VirtualBox hogs me printers

[Peter Childs]

2008/8/30 Mike Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>:
> 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
>

It should be relatively easy at least as easier (if not easier) than
connecting a real printer.

1. Ensure Networking is working in the virtual Machine I have no idea
on this one.....
2. Connect to port 631 on the host you should get some samba admin pages.
3. Add Printer in virtual machine under XP
4. Enter http://<name of host>:631/printers/<name of printer> as the
address of the printer
5. It will ask for drivers select appropratly
6. Check it works

This should work on any real machine of as well (ie on your home network).

Peter.