virtualbox wont show USB ports in the guest OS

[Jack Wallen]

Joep L. Blom said the following:


>
>>> -R
>>> 
>>Thanks for the replies. Of course I run the PUEL session (I thought I 
>>mentioned that) otherwise there is no USB pass-through.
>>I still think it has to do with permissions in some way but the whole 
>>USB-management as well in Ubuntu as in virtual box is not clear to me
>>at all. I assume Ubuntu uses HAL but I read somewhere that Ubuntu
>>already uses or will use another virtual bus system (D-bus??). And as
>>you said, Ray, if it works it works "automagically".
>>Anyway I have to solve the problem soon as it hinders me a lot for 
>>several programs I have to use under W XP as no Linux equivalents are 
>>available (e.g. a music notation program Finale: the Linux programs
>>are as yet no real equivalent). I have obligations, necessitating, 
>>unfortunately,the use of this and a few other Windows programs.
>>I still hope somebody will come with a suggestion, any help is
>>welcome. Joep
>>

Joep,

Have you done the following (I am cutting an pasting from an article I
wrote on ghacks.net):

Configure USB

Now it’s time to configure the system to allow USB support. You have to
get the user ID of the vboxusers group. To do this issue the following
command:

grep vboxusers /etc/group

which will report something like:

vboxusers:x:123:

What you need to now do is add a line to the /etc/fstab file. This line
will be (if we stick with the user ID report you see above):

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=123,devmode=664 0 0

With that file saved you are ready to reboot and start up VirtualBox
with USB support.


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