VirtualBox on ubuntu 8.10 host, can't get USB working in Windows XP guest, not permissions

[NoOp]

On 11/28/2008 05:24 AM, Chris G wrote:
> I have got VirtualBox running on a Ubuntu 8.10 host, it all runs pretty
> smoothly (except for USB).
> 
> I have done all the things noted in http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ
> and I don't seem to have any permission problems (they did appear
> initially and were then cleared by doing this).  I have previously had
> the same devices working in a Vmware Windows XP guest so I'm fairly
> familiar with USB on virtual machines and these devices have worked before.
> 
> 
> However I can't get *any* USB device to actually work in the XP guest.
> They all appear as expected as USB Devices in the VirtualBox devices
> menu and I can select and deselect them without problems.
> 
> What happens in the Windows XP guest system though is that, when a
> device is plugged in and selected, it says "Found new hardware, USB
> root hub" and then fails to install it.  This happens twice so the
> system ends up with two devices called "Unknown device" with an
> exclamation mark by them in Device Manager.
> 
> Removing and re-installing the unknown devices just ends up back in
> the same place.
> 
> Help!!!  I'm really stuck here, I can't find anything at all that
> looks like this searching with Google.  I have also asked on the
> VirtualBox mailing list and haven't had much help there.
> 
> It *seems* as if I must be doing something basically wrong somewhere
> since no one else has had this problem. I'm not a very 'Windows'
> person so it could be that I'm doing something wrong in Windows and
> that there's nothing wrong in the VirtualBox side of things.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 

Post these:

1. This line from your /etc/fstab:

none  /proc/bus/usb   usbfs devgid=<number>,devmode=664      0  0

2. Your group list:

group <yourusername>