VirtualBox OSE + USB

[NoOp]

On 04/30/2008 05:32 PM, Ranmadhu wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> I used the VB from the repos, and as a test installed
>> WinXPPro. Magic!
>>
>> However, I could not manage to get USB support working. 
>>
>>   
>  From what I recall, the repos has the open sourced version. The open 
> source version does not support USB (see 
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions), but the closed-source one 
> does. I have the closed source version (on 7.10) and USB works fine.
> 
> Ranmadhu
> 

Thanks. Blew out the repo version & used this to reinstall:

<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=2c0655574653a9aa3ca31162fba3cce3&t=770745>

The only problem that I had was that I had to use

sudo dpkg -i <name>.deb

as the Nautilus installer stalled due to the older version.
USB came up like a charm. Installing Win2KP now for testing :-)