Wacom Pressure Sensitivity in VirtualBox

[v***@public.gmane.org]

First off, a huge thank you to the folks at LinuxWacom who adapted and compiled the binaries for the Wacom drawing tablet drivers for OpenSolaris. That was truly a labor of love that (finally) allows me to use my drawing tablet.

I'm running Adobe Photoshop on WinXP inside VirtualBox. In the default configuration, I can use the tablet essentially as a mouse, so that I can navigate and draw and whatnot. However, I the pressure sensitivity aspect appears not to work. When I draw/paint in Photoshop, the width of the brush stroke remains fixed and constant, and does not increase when I press harder. I posted a note on the LinuxWacom list, and got a response that I don't quite understand:

"If you want virtualbox guest to have the pressure sensitivity you need
to let the guest driver handle it, otherwise all you get is basic
input functionality. This means that you need either PUEL or
commercial version of virutalbox with USB forwarding support and you
need to forward the tablet device to virtualbox. With XP host and
Linux guest it sort of but not quite worked. There was pressure
sensitivity so you could sort of draw, but there was no system cursor
for it so it was hard to see where. It may work for XP guest tho."

Does this make sense to anyone? Or is there another approach in VirtualBox that might work? Thanks!

[Hugh McIntyre]

Post by v***@public.gmane.org
First off, a huge thank you to the folks at LinuxWacom who adapted and compiled the binaries for the Wacom drawing tablet drivers for OpenSolaris. That was truly a labor of love that (finally) allows me to use my drawing tablet.
"If you want virtualbox guest to have the pressure sensitivity you need
to let the guest driver handle it, otherwise all you get is basic
input functionality. This means that you need either PUEL or
commercial version of virutalbox with USB forwarding support and you
need to forward the tablet device to virtualbox. With XP host and
Linux guest it sort of but not quite worked. There was pressure
sensitivity so you could sort of draw, but there was no system cursor
for it so it was hard to see where. It may work for XP guest tho."
Does this make sense to anyone? Or is there another approach in VirtualBox that might work? Thanks!

I haven't used a Wacom tablet much (or virtualbox at all), but I think
this is saying:

1. For this to work, you cannot use a setup where the Wacom tablet is
visible to both the host (with LinuxWacom) and the XP guest (by having
events passed through when the guest window is in focus, as is done with
the mouse). Instead, you have to pass the whole USB device to the XP
guest, in which case it will not be visible to the host at all (and I
would guess you probably also don't need LinuxWacom). This is the same
as the way a CDROM drive is normally visible to the host, or guest, but
not both.

2. If so, the paragraph above is apparently saying you need the
commercial or PUEL (binary download) version of Virtualbox. Not the
opensource version compiled from source. See
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL.

Hugh.

[v***@public.gmane.org]

Thanks for your help.

Three questions:

1. Would the mouse pointer then be turned over to the tablet in the WinXP window only? That is, when I move the mouse, it would control the host OS (OpenSolaris), and the pen itself would be confined to WinXP, and could not affect the host?

2. Can I still use the same .vdi and snapshots that I'm using with the open-source version now, and can I move back and forth at will?

3. Is there a way to assign a SATA DVD-R drive so that I could use something like Nero to burn DVDs directly from within WinXP?

Many thanks for your help!

[Joerg.Schilling-8LS2qeF34IpklNlQbfROjRvVK+ (Joerg Schilling)]

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3. Is there a way to assign a SATA DVD-R drive so that I could use something like Nero to burn DVDs directly from within WinXP?

Cdrecord writes DVDs on Solaris since February 1997, this is many years longer
than DVD support exists in Nero......

Jörg

[v***@public.gmane.org]

Thanks, and we've already been over this particular issue, and I'm still not interested in using CDrecord at this point. I'd ask anyone else if they've been able to use VirtualBox non-open-source to get DVD-writing access within Windows? Thanks.

[Joerg.Schilling-8LS2qeF34IpklNlQbfROjRvVK+ (Joerg Schilling)]

Post by v***@public.gmane.org
Thanks, and we've already been over this particular issue, and I'm still not interested in using CDrecord at this point. I'd ask anyone else if they've been able to use VirtualBox non-open-source to get DVD-writing access within Windows? Thanks.

If you don't like to use the native method to write DVDs this is your
decision...but please do not complain.

Jörg

[v***@public.gmane.org]

Okay, then, do tell me: does CDRecord support BluRay?

[Ignacio Marambio Catán]

it does
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html

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Okay, then, do tell me: does CDRecord support BluRay?
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[v***@public.gmane.org]

Cool; thanks!