[fedora-virt] windows xp guest and iphone

[Jamie Wellnitz]

Heh.

I spent a week after I got my iTouch (sorry, "iPod Touch") trying to
get it to sync with ITunes on WinXP in a virtual machine hosted on
Fedora 12.

You have to use the USB passthrough feature - BUT The iPhone/iPod
Touch devices apparently have a "more complicated" USB protocol than
qemu/kvm can currently handle.  Oh, and I never saw a failure - iTunes
just never sees the device - quite annoying.

I read somewhere that Sun's Virtual Box (free-as-in-maybe-open-source)
works - but it didn't.  The way I finally got the iTouch<->iTunes
communication to work was with the not-entirely-free version of
Virtual Box.  (It is free-as-in-beer though.)  I think you can get it
from Sun^H^H^HOracle here:

http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp

Once I had WinXP running in that, I just have to right click on the
little USB icon in Virtual Box's frame and select the iPod Touch
device.

I wasn't able to get my qemu/kvm XP image to boot in Virtual Box, so I
gave up on that even and reinstalled XP.

Best of luck,
Jamie

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Daniel Sanabria <sanabria.d at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone been able to successfully have the iphone recognized by a windows
> xp guest? I have tried adding the iphone as a usb devide to the guest's
> virtual hardware details without any luck :(
> Daniel
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