Printer Acces in VirtualBox

[kaizoku001]

I just installed Win 7 In VB and was wondering how can I access my printer in it?

I installed the drivers, but when I turn the printer on it doesn't register in Win 7 (VB)

Any Ideas?

[Dangermouse]

Have you connected the printer to the VB image, ie if usb printer enable the usb port etc.., or set up printer sharing in the host which im guessing is fedora, but it all depends on how you are connected to the printer.

[kaizoku001]

Originally Posted by Dangermouse

Have you connected the printer to the VB image, ie if usb printer enable the usb port etc.., or set up printer sharing in the host which im guessing is fedora, but it all depends on how you are connected to the printer.

Not too sure how to enable usb ports

Can somebody help?

---------- Post added at 06:21 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 12:38 PM CDT ----------

just wanted to add thet in the setting I don't have a USB option.

after the port the only other option is share folders.

[trigpoint]

When using VMs, I never connect printers directly to the VM, but set up my Fedora host to share the printer over the network and then configure the VM to print using a Network Printer.

[smr54]

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=211932

Post 2 explains how to get USB working.

Note that if you're using the OSE edition, it doesn't have USB support (or didn't anyway--haven't heard that it's changed, but of course, it might have.)

[kaizoku001]

Originally Posted by smr54

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=211932

Post 2 explains how to get USB working.

Note that if you're using the OSE edition, it doesn't have USB support (or didn't anyway--haven't heard that it's changed, but of course, it might have.)

Wait Wait Wait... there a NON OSE version?????

Can somebody tell me where I can get it?
and what's the diff???

Thanks


PS***
What's the Diff between VirtualBox and VirtualMachine?

[smr54]

www.virtualbox.org

On the left, go to downloads, then Linux hosts, which takes you to

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

In there, choose your Fedora version and download the rpm. Then

yum localinstall --nogpgcheck <whatever>rpm should, in theory at least, pull in all the dependencies.