Does vbox have support for cd-rom or usb in winxp guest?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:38:34 +0200
> From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de>
> 
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:30:52 -0700
> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> wrote:
> 
> > Other than the USB, everything seems to work great for a Windows 7
> > guest. I just need a bit more memory so I don't spend so much time
> > paging. 
> >
> 
> This statement interests me because, as I've posted several times, I can't
> even start W7RC with acceleration turned on (running a recent 9-CURRENT).
> Everything worked with older versions of the kernel and port.
> 
> What version of FreeBSD and of the port are you using?

Yes, I have seen your reports and I don't see anything like it. 

I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and have been using VB running Windows 7
Release (not RC) since 8.0-BETA1. I have used both NAT and bridged
networking and both work fine for me. No problems encountered at all
other than that memory utilization tends to sit at 85% or more and
paging and swapping on the Windows system makes it very slow and makes
running more than one app at a time impractical. W7 simply can't run
well with 512 MB of memory.

I ordered memory for my ThinkPad yesterday, so I hope that I'll have
double the memory next week.

If it would work for FreeBSD, I would be quite willing to buy a
commercial version to get the USB to work! Of course, neither the VB nor
the Sun Microsystems web sites provide any clue as to how to buy it,
even if it could work.
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