VirtualBox problem in F15

[Gary Waters]

On 05/28/2011 01:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On 28/05/11 10:26, Steven Stern wrote:
>> On 05/27/2011 10:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On 27/05/11 22:22, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>> On 05/28/2011 10:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>>> I haven't touched my home directory where the VM is kept, so any light
>>>>> on this would be welcome.
>>>>>
>>>> No info on your particular error.  I don't see your issue on my Win2K,
>>>> and Vista guest.  However, USBs don't work in any of my guests.  So, I'm
>>>> not confident in the quality of Oracle's release for F15.
>>>>
>>>> FWIW, I've put up my query on their forum and looked to see if anyone
>>>> posted about yours...nothing found.
>>>
>>> OK, thanks. I haven't got as far as trying the USB stuff as I can't even
>>> run my VM, but if USB doesn't work it's no use to me. I only run VB when
>>> I want to update my iPhone.
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>>
>> Make sure your user account is in the vboxusers group or USB won't work.
>> This was a change in the 4.x series on VirtualBox.
>>
>> 1) as root or via sudo, edit /etc/group
>> 2) locate the vboxusers line and add yourself after the last colon
>>        vboxusers:x:501:sdstern
>> 3) save the file.
>> 4) logout, login
>
> Cerainly. I started using the 4.x series on F14 and already dealt with this.
>
> I'm afraid it doesn't do anything for my original problem though (Ed has
> a USB problem; I don't or at least have no indication that I do since I
> can't get that far).
>
> poc
>

Once I had everything in place I had to go into the setttings for each 
VDI and add USB filters for each device. Once I did that everything fell 
into place perfectly.

GW