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Add note to section 21.6.: VirtualBox USB support - USB 2.0 and 3.0 pass through not supported (from bug ticket #207630: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207630)
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Reviewed the submitted links from bug #207630 and added a note explaining VirtualBox's USB 2.0/3.0 pass through is not supported from a FreeBSD host to guest OS, as the extensions package is unavailable for FreeBSD Hosts.

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timmoore88_gmail.com retitled this revision from to Add note to section 21.6.: VirtualBox USB support - USB 2.0 and 3.0 pass through not supported (from bug ticket #207630: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207630).
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Removed the possessive from Virtualbox and clarified USB 2/3 pass through is broken, but USB 1.0 pass through functions.

Two fixes, the rest looks good.

en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml
916 ↗(On Diff #21599)

s/Hosts/hosts/

919 ↗(On Diff #21599)

This is missing a sentence stop.

en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml
916 ↗(On Diff #21599)

The "currently" introduces a pause, and is implied anyway. Flip this around to make it not need the pause:

The <application>&virtualbox;</application> extension pack is not available for &os; hosts.
917 ↗(On Diff #21599)
Without the extension pack, the &os; host cannot pass-through USB ports to guest operating systems.
919 ↗(On Diff #21599)

My testing today could not get any USB pass-through to work. This is on -current (12.0).

timmoore88_gmail.com added inline comments.
en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization/chapter.xml
919 ↗(On Diff #21599)

Talked to kmoore - he believes all USB pass-through (without the extension pack) had been disabled after a recent update.

timmoore88_gmail.com marked 2 inline comments as done.

In response to suggestions from dru and kmoore, the whole section on USB passthrough is recommended to be removed, as this feature appears to be locked behind a proprietary extension pack owned by VirtualBox.

Oops - fixed small white space error.

Fix whitespace error on line #912 and alter "pass-through" on #915 and #916.

wblock edited edge metadata.
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 28 2016, 2:19 PM
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