Art Alexion on 10 Jun 2010 02:29:29 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Wine usb support (scanner)


I'd be reluctant to spawn that other OS as root.

If you want IAN support and wine-like integration, try virtualbox in seamless mode.

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Art Alexion

On Jun 9, 2010 8:11 PM, "Edmond Rodriguez" <erodrig_97@yahoo.com> wrote:

I guess qemu does have usb support (run with sudo or root).  I probably never got far enough to research it more, as I would have googled it some,  though I could try a newly installed disk image with qemu that might run for a month before it complains about licensing.

http://firmit.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/qemu-with-usb-support/
http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:qemu#using_an_usb_device_in_qemu



This also makes me think of another question.

If I were to run as root, and wanted /dev/hda to be read only for some application, could I do a hard or soft link to it  using say /dev/myHda, then set the permissions to read only (even for root) on /dev/myHda?  Then I would reference to /dev/myHda if I wanted it as read only?


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