Bug 220350

Summary: Virtualization: Document USB passthrough using VirtualBox.
Product: Documentation Reporter: Johannes Jost Meixner <xmj>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Sevan Janiyan <sevan>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: emulation, sevan, xmj
Priority: --- Keywords: patch
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
URL: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11685
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Description Flags
document virtualbox usb passthrough. none

Description Johannes Jost Meixner freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-06-29 09:16:54 UTC
Created attachment 183905 [details]
document virtualbox usb passthrough.

The handbook currently states that USB passthrough is not possible without an extension pack. This is incorrect, virtualbox-ose is merely limited to emulating a USB1.1 host controller. Patch attached documents how to pass through things.
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-08-01 11:09:43 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: sevan
Date: Tue Aug  1 11:09:02 UTC 2017
New revision: 50613
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50613

Log:
  The handbook currently states that USB passthrough is not possible without an extension pack.
  This is incorrect, virtualbox-ose is merely limited to emulating a USB1.1 host controller.

  PR:		220350
  Submitted by:	Johannes Jost Meixner
  Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11685

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml
Comment 2 Sevan Janiyan freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-08-01 11:11:42 UTC
Committed, thank you :)