Home virtual topo map advice?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 12:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:15:20 +0000 (UTC)
> BeartoothHOS wrote:
> 
> > So, afaict, the alternative is to install a virtual M$ under one 
> > of the virtualization packages, and run my legacy software under that. It 
> > will almost never get a connection to the Net, other than updates from 
> > Garmin.
> 
> If you need the virtual machine to talk to a physical device (like
> via USB), I have heard that virtualbox is better at that than most
> other packages (though I have never tried it myself - I have tried
> connecting a USB printer to a KVM virtual machine just for grins, and
> it made the windows KVM bluescreen, so that didn't work at all).

VirtualBox is fine. Note that for USB access you need the non-free
version. It's easy to set up and I use it to sync and update my iPhone.

poc