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

[NoOp]

On 11/28/2008 09:47 AM, Chris G wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:26:24AM -0800, NoOp wrote:
[snip]
>> 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>
>> 
> The /etc/fstabl line is:-
> 
>     none                /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   devgid=123,devmode=666 0 0

Change to 664 v 666.

> 
> 
> I don't have a 'group' command, I guess you meant 'groups' :-

Yes. Sorry.

> 
>     chris adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare vboxusers

That looks ok to me.

> 
> ... and 'grep vboxusers /etc/group' produces:-
> 
>     vboxusers:x:123:chris,root
> 

I'd caution against root being in vboxusers given that you're running a
MS$ guest.

Also, not sure which version of VirtualBox you are running, but you
might want to update to the latest if you are not there already:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
I've updated to 2.0.6 (and of course updated the VboxGuestAdditions to
same) and so far it's been working very well.

Note: I only have it on hardy as the only intrepid machine I have is an
old slow Thinkpad A21M with limited hard drive space. But, the faq also
indicates:

===
If you want to make all USB devices available for users member of the
vboxusers group, apply the proposed change for USB on openSUSE.
===

and that has some additional items in the fstab line:
none  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs
auto,busgid=XXX,busmode=0775,devgid=XXX,devmode=0664  0  0
I'm not sure if the busgid & busmode is applicable to intrepid, but you
can try it. I'd just try 664 first to see if that will resolve the problem'