VirtualBox + iPod/iPhone Sync


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I'm running Fedora 10 and the only thing I miss is syncing my iphone with my itunes music.

Instead of having to use my other computer... am I able to setup a VirtualBox with say XP, install iTunes, enable USB on the Virtual Box, and then sync my iphone to it?

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Should be able to, VirtualBox tries to emulate the USB ports independently and separately from your actual system. I've tried it with various stuff and it works.

What happens is that VirtualBox will 'eject' the USB device then reconnect it into the actual VM enviroment, I've had no problems with it, though, I wasn't using Linux as a main OS at the time, so I don't know. Might be worth looking into a third party program that can do the job without an actual VM?

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This can definitely be done, I'm currently running Ubuntu 8.10 and Virtualbox 2.0.6. I had to run a script that did some kernel patching (from here). But apparently the latest version of Virtualbox should support it out of the box.

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Haven't tried it with VirtualBox but with the latest VMWare Workstation it works flawlessly, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, with VMWare Player, and Windows XP in the VM, and I can sync my iphone without troubles.

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