[ubuntu-in] Query regarding USB access in VirtualBox Guest system

[Gora Mohanty]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:26:07 +0530
"Ramnarayan.K" <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Recently setup Virtualbox under 9.04, the closed source edition
> which has USB support.
> 
> I then installed PCLInuxOS 2009 as the guest system because this
> OS manages to run my Huawei ETS 2288 to connect to the net (which
> Ubuntu 9.04 does not)
> 
> After setting up PCLinux i tried to get the device to start
> working and am getting an error, the error is similar to the
> error i get on Ubuntu 9.04
> 
> which is
> /dev/ttyUSB0 not found, no such device
[...]

Tried the instructions at
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-VirtualBox-USB-Support-111715.shtml
or at
http://www.samlesher.com/ubuntu/virtualbox-with-usb-support-on-ubuntu

I have always managed to get USB working on the non-open-source
virtualbox after some futzing around.

Regards,
Gora