Thanks for the extra info Michael. I have downloaded the most recent binary for Fedora 8. I need the binary rather than compiling from source as I *think* usb support is closed source. I have a good tutorial for getting VirtualBox going on Aspire One (had to download kernal source, dev environment (not installed by default) etc, etc). I should be good to go I think. Hopefully this time tomorrow I'll be able to say whether or not it flew :)