Running CentOS as my host OS and using VirtualBox to run "everything else", it didn't take long before I was running into USB problems. In my case I had a Windows 2000 guest on a CentOS 5 host (same for RedHat EL) and I wanted to use ActiveSync to connect to my WM5 Windows Mobile device.

I'm diverting for a sec, but this is the big reason why I like VirtualBox so much. I do software development for the Windows Mobile platform (http://www.locatea.net/) which requires a lot of software installation for Visual Studio and then even more for the various Windows Mobile SDKs. It is quite a job to get it all installed correctly. Previously that whole install could (and would) easily be screwed up because some completely unrelated application would mess up the registry, forcing you to reinstall the server and start from scratch.

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