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On 24/04/16 14:55, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > Some time ago you may remember I posted that the only reason Window 7 > still exists on my system is because the TomTom Satnav app will not > work in WINE. Apologies to purists but I've found no native way of > getting it to work in Linux, so I'm going with the adage 'If it works, > use it'. I also heard of problems getting USB to work with VirtualBox. > IIRC I was not alone in my irritation at having to keep Windows 7 > /just/ for the SatNav. Yesterday I took the plunge and setup a Windows > 7 VM in VirtualBox. In short it was successful, but I thought I would > share how as it was not without much gnashing of teeth. I'll assume > you have installed VirtualBox and followed up by installing a Windows > 7 VM as those bits are relatively straightforward; for reference I > gave it 4Gb memory and 256Mb video RAM. > > 1. To get USB working /at all/ you have to follow a set procedure. > a) Install VirtualBox Guest Additions CD Image following the > directions on this webpage: > http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-1955955/install-virtualbox-guest-additions-windows.html > - After this go to the Settings -> USB for the VM and you will be able > to enable USB 2.0 (or 3.0 if your motherboard supports it, mine doesn't). > IMPORTANT NOTE: The VirtualBox version MUST be IDENTICAL to the > Guest Additions version or it won't work. > b) Close down the VM and insert / turn on any USB devices you want > it to recognise. Except the SatNav.. it won't work yet, not without > the driver software. > c) Start the VM and you should see the familiar notifications that > Windows has found new hardware and is setting it up for use. > d) Go back to Settings -> USB and click the Add icon (second down) > under USB Filters. Add each device in turn. > e) In the bottom right the fourth icon from the left is USB > devices. Right click that and make sure all you want have ticks next > to them. > > Subsequent boots of the VM you can plug and unplug USB devices as > normal. It's only to add them that they need to be plugged in before > the VM starts. > > 2. Now the NAS - I had to enable this as my TomTom software is on the > NAS box - oops. Anyway this is relatively simple, once you get past > the naive assumption - which I had - that a Windows VM will recognise > the NAS just because it can get Internet access, and because the host > OS does. Wrong. Just set Windows up on network up the same as you did > for the real install, network name etc. > > Click on Devices - Shared Folders - Shared Folder Settings. Browse to > the Mount Point - not the drive itself as I did - which in my case is > /home/julian/HERA. Make sure to check Auto-mount and Make Permanent. > > It should then be a Network Location within the Windows 7 VM, so if > you have been a berk like me and all your Windows Installation media > are on your NAS, now you can get at them. if not go ahead and try > mapping it like a normal drive, but you shouldn't need to. Programs > won't run from the NAS - not sure why but a bad idea anyway - so just > copy and paste them to the VM's desktop and run from there. > > 3. Now, the biggie, the SatNav. > a) Close down the VM and plug the SatNav in. > b) Restart the VM and it will try to detect the SatNav, and > possibly fail. Mine did but this turned out not to be an issue - it > probably needed the driver installed first. > c) TomTom provide two programs, TomTom HOME 2 and MyDrive. The > former didn't detect the SatNav even when it was plugged in and had > been told to connect to the computer. However, when I installed > MyDrive, for the first time it did. Log into your account as normal > and you should then be told what updates are available for your > SatNav. Update as per normal. > > Subsequently MyDrive has been a little pernickety at detecting the > SatNav, but to be honest in my experience this is normal for a > standard Windows installation as well so it doesn't bother me. Plug it > in and unplug it once or twice and MyDrive will load - assuming you > told it in the settings to run when the SatNav was plugged in of > course. Detection does take a bit longer than normal so be patient > with the plug/unplug frequency. > > I hope this helps, and if your SaNav is a different make hopefully > this will have given you some pointers on getting it to work. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > Sounds like a totally normal day with VirtualBox - only without the complexities of Snapshot'ing too (yeah, don't go there!). [Aside, you may wish to take a snapshot of your working VM anyway, so that in the event it has a paddy, you've got something to go back to!] Good write-up though :) +1
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