access USB devices from VirtualBox

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Wed Aug 19 01:22:21 UTC 2009


L wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have F10
> Linux  2.6.27.29-170.2.79.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 14 20:49:37 EDT
> 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> and installed a virtualbox
> 
> Name        : VirtualBox                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 3.0.4_50677_fedora9               Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> Release     : 1                             Build Date: Wed 05 Aug
> 2009 05:29:19 AM EST
> 
> and WinXp as a guest PC. Things are running smoothly except access  to
> USB devices. I added the user to vboxusers group.
> 
> When plug a USB in, I can see this device from VB window Devices ->
> USB Devicves. But the USB device is grayed out. There is no way to
> access it.
> 
> I have googled this for fix. some sugegsted this is permission
> problem. but I tried a few things, butall failed.
> 
> hope some one offer a fix?

Permissions are important, but I think you have to blacklist it in
Fedora so the OS doesn't grab it and load a driver for it.  It's been
a while since I tried to do that sort of thing.
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