USB not working in VirtualBox F13

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Wed Jul 7 05:49:41 UTC 2010


On 07/06/2010 09:20 AM, Mick M. wrote:
> Hi;
>   Kernel  x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa VirtualBox*
> VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.6_63112_fedora13-1.x86_64
>
> This is the Oracle version, same for the fedora version.
> I cannot install the OSE version as "there is no module for this kernel"
>
> My userneme is mick, mick is a member of mick(500), usb(503), vboxusers(504).
>
> I have a line in fstab:
> none     /proc/bus/usb     usbfs      devgid=503,devmode=664    0    0
>
>
> In VirtualBox ->  USB All boxes are checked.
> It sees "Kingston DataTraveller 2.0 (0200)", is dark text and seems normal.
>
> Top line: Devices ->  USB Devices - the Kingston is there but greyed out.
> Bottom line hover over USB symbol "NO USB devices attached"
>
> Any Ideas?
>
>
> Standard guarantee applies - 30 feet or 30 seconds, whichever comes first.
>
> #  find / -name "*your base*" -exec chown us:us {} \;


The Oracle VirtualBox creates a group 'vboxusers'. Add yourself to this 
group and USB works.

For the kernel module thing, make sure you have the dkms package installed.

-- 
Chris Kloiber

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