USB not working in VirtualBox F13

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 19:32:55 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:47 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 07:28 -0700, Mick M. wrote:
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 7/6/10, Athmane Madjoudj <athmanem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Athmane Madjoudj <athmanem at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > AFAIK, OSE doesn't support USB [1]
> > > 
> > > [1] http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply, however I am not using the OSE version.
> 
> Have a look here:
> http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#id2618113
> 
> This should give you the information needed to get USB support working
> correctly.
> 
> Hint from this page:
> On newer Linux hosts, VirtualBox accesses USB devices through special
> files in the file system. When VirtualBox is installed, these are made
> available to all users in the vboxusers system group. In order to be
> able to access USB from guest systems, make sure that you are a member
> of this group.

He already said he is a member of vboxusers.

poc



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