Samsung U70 and Sun VirtualBox

[Markus]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get a Samsung U70 Display working with a Windows 7 installation running in Sun's Virtualbox on a CentOS Linux Host. The routing of the USB device between the CentOS Host and the VirtualBox instance seems to work fine since the Display is listed in the Windows device manager and declared to be functional.

Unfortunately I'm unable to get the latest DisplayLink drivers up and running. I always getting the "your device is incompatible"-message at boot time. I already tried using Windows 7 in 32bit and 64bit versions.

I'm unable to start the DisplayLinkUI binary. I only see the following messages in the debug DisplayLinkUI.log file:

00:00:00.00 DisplayLinkUI 0012FCA0 ALWAYS Logger.cpp:888 Version 5.2.21746.0. Built by BLACKWOOD\buildmaster, at 11:42:12 Oct 20 2009. Started at Tue Feb 23 16:26:40 2010
00:00:00.00 DisplayLinkUI:0137945C DisplayLinkUI 0137945C DEBUG DisplayLinkUIApp.cpp:30 Starting
00:00:00.00 DisplayLinkUI:0137945C MonitorableAppThread 0137C574 DEBUG MonitorableApp.cpp:44 Monitorable pipe DLMonitorableApp:C:\Program Files\DisplayLink Core Software\DisplayLinkUI.exe:1
00:00:00.04 DisplayLinkUI:0137945C DLUI::Root 0197FE24 INFO Root.cpp:200 dl::app::trayui::Root::main entry
00:00:00.04 DisplayLinkUI:0137945C WindowsUpdateSearcher 0137CFAC DEBUG WindowsUpdate.cpp:123 UpdateSearchHandler built
00:00:00.12 DisplayLinkUI:0137945C WindowsUpdateSearcher 0137CFAC DEBUG WindowsUpdate.cpp:182 Search for updates has started.
00:00:01.24 MonitorableAppThread:0137C574 IpcPipeClientImpl DLMonitorableAppC__Program_Files_DisplayLink_Core_ Software_DisplayLinkUI_exe_1 ERROR Pipe.cpp:519 Failed to find pipe client with pipe name \\.\pipe\DLMonitorableAppC:\Program Files\DisplayLink Core Software\DisplayLinkUI.exe:1: 0x00000002: The system cannot find the file specified.
00:00:02.35 MonitorableAppThread:0137C574 IpcPipeClientImpl DLMonitorableAppC__Program_Files_DisplayLink_Core_ Software_DisplayLinkUI_exe_1 ERROR Pipe.cpp:519 Failed to find pipe client with pipe name \\.\pipe\DLMonitorableAppC:\Program Files\DisplayLink Core Software\DisplayLinkUI.exe:1: 0x00000002: The system cannot find the file specified.
00:00:03.44 MonitorableAppThread:0137C574 IpcPipeClientImpl DLMonitorableAppC__Program_Files_DisplayLink_Core_ Software_DisplayLinkUI_exe_1 ERROR Pipe.cpp:519 Failed to find pipe client with pipe name \\.\pipe\DLMonitorableAppC:\Program Files\DisplayLink Core Software\DisplayLinkUI.exe:1: 0x00000002: The system cannot find the file specified.

Please let me know which additional informations I should provide since I really would like to use the display in the virtualized Windows instance.

Greetings,
Markus

[Wim]

I think the error message you are seeing is due to this:

http://www.displaylink.com/support/ticket.php?id=293

Is it possible to use WDDM drivers on your Windows 7 install?

Wim

[Markus]

Thanks for the hint. Seems like that VirtualBox currently doesn't provide any WDDM 1.1 drivers for Windows 7 guests that would also allow you to use Aero, etc. Those drivers are currently under development.

Are there any ways around this issue in the "DisplayLink-World" if there's no WDDM driver available?

Greetings,
Markus