USB not working in VirtualBox F13

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 15:02 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.

If you read the actual page, it gives you more things to check and
validate (and should actually configure in Fedora). Being a member of
vboxusers is just the start of what you should be checking...

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