Virtualbox share guest (windows xp) printer to host(linux)

Posted by M0E-lnx on Super User See other posts from Super User or by M0E-lnx
Published on 2010-02-11T18:42:21Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 15:11 UTC
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I have a weird situation. I own a printer that has 0 support in linux, but of course, it works in windows. So I have installed VirtualBox 3.1.2 with guest additions to provide access to my usb devices. I have successfully setup the printer and the guest os can print fine.

Now, the question is: Is there any way to make this printer accessible to the host OS?

I noticed that the guest OS takes an ip address of 10.0.2.15, but when I try to ping that address from the linux host, it goes nowhere. No response.

Has anyone here done this before? can anyone think of a way to do this?

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