access USB devices from VirtualBox

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:22 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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.

No, VBox handles that for you.

poc