Passthru's obviously won't usually work -- if you had an OS from a decade ago that didn't know about USB, I'd guess that the USB drivers would either not work or would actively break it. OTOH, you can deconfigure USB passthru.
For what its worth, my current desktop is a 'recycled' XP workstation - actually quite nice as it has SCSI drives. I had the idea of using the existing XP partition under Virtualbox (you can do this - you can point Virtualbox to a real disk partition and boot it up). I got the OS to boot up - but it fails as the 'real' install of XP never had the drivers for USB keyboards. You would have to boot it up for real with a PS2 keyboard and mouse, then load up the correct drivers. I didn't take it much further than that. The contents of this email are confidential and for the exclusive use of the intended recipient. If you receive this email in error you should not copy it, retransmit it, use it or disclose its contents but should return it to the sender immediately and delete your copy. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
