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