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FishyMike



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:04 am    Post subject: Virtualbox
i would imagine this goes to mr. ernie, but i dont mind who gives the answer as long as it works.

now that i have my virtualbox just about where i want it, i would like to get my usb resolved with v-box. im not sure where to cast the blame, (host or guest).
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FishyMike



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Virtualbox [Login to view extended thread Info.]
FishyMike wrote:
i would imagine this goes to mr. ernie, but i dont mind who gives the answer as long as it works.

now that i have my virtualbox just about where i want it, i would like to get my usb resolved with v-box. im not sure where to cast the blame, (host or guest).


no takers on above question, i must have asked a hard one.
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ernie



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:18 pm    Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.]
What worked for me was to make my user account a member of the usb group (may be called the usbusers group on some systems). My user account is also a member of the vboxusers group.

I use the KDE Desktop environment, and I made these changes with kuser. If you use a different desktop environment, I expect it includes a user account management utility as well.

HTH,
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FishyMike



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:40 am    Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.]
ernie wrote:
What worked for me was to make my user account a member of the usb group (may be called the usbusers group on some systems). My user account is also a member of the vboxusers group.

I use the KDE Desktop environment, and I made these changes with kuser. If you use a different desktop environment, I expect it includes a user account management utility as well.

HTH,
i am also a member in the vboxusers group, hasn't fixed my problem yet. I am using vbox1.5 under suse which gives me a few different rules i think.
one thing that i have discovered is this,
* USB on openSUSE: Add the following entry to /etc/fstab:

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=XXX,busmode=0775,devgid=XXX,devmode=0664 0 0

Replace XXX by the group ID of the group vboxusers. You can determine this value by executing

grep vboxusers /etc/group

Of course, the current user should be member of that group. After the next reboot, there should be a directory /proc/bus/usb/ and the device entries below should be accessible by any user of the vboxusers group.

* If USB doesn't work, check your usbfs permissions. See "Troubleshooting" -> "Linux hosts" in the User Manual for a solution.

I have made attempts to do this but have only gotten errors of some kind.

any help is appreciated.
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ernie



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:14 pm    Post subject: [Login to view extended thread Info.]
Please post the specific errors you get along with the command from which they resulted.
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