Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#5613 closed enhancement (fixed)
Emulated tablets
| Reported by: | aubade | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | host support | Version: | VirtualBox 3.1.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
It would be exceedingly nice if it were somehow possible for virtualbox to be able to emulate a USB tablet on its guest OSes, so that a pressure sensitive wacom tablet could be used in the host and guest simultaneously. Very useful for applications such as Corel Painter that don't work on linux by any other means. (QEMU theoretically has something roughly like this, but last time i tried, when emulating a pressure sensitive device, it didn't work with a windows guest)
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 14 years ago
comment:2 by , 14 years ago
You must add your user to vboxusers group and after this connect hid. But this work very unstable :( And it doesn't work with OpenSource edition.
comment:3 by , 14 years ago
The problem with using the HID device directly is that the guest OS "steals" the tablet from the host, who can't use until the VM releases it. When one uses a tablet as their exclusive pointing device (which is the case with my setup), this is unusable.
comment:4 by , 14 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
That feature is available since VBox 3.2.
Ack, my apologies. I intended to set this to a feature request, not a major bug.