[solved] virtualbox-ose: F key dead for all guests

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> There's a phrase used in open-source circles "Free as in speech, not
> free as in beer." I think it is to reference a difference between
> freeware where the source isn't free and open source which is considered
> "truly free".
   there is some confusion, as a beer brewer named "freebeer" claims
   that its beer is not gratis, but open source !
   exceptionally, in that case, french is better, as it has 2 words to
   distinguish between the 2 "free': gratis and libre

> I had to google a bit to get USB working. It involved creating an
> additional group to add myself to, editing a couple files in
> /etc/init.d,...nothing too outlandish. Google "virtualbox usb heron" and
> you should get some hits to describe the steps.

   googling was useful, but I found that some recommended
   steps are not necessary on hardy. I just had to add 2 lines
    - 1 line in /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
        domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=130,devmode=664
    - 1 line in /etc/fstab
        none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=130,devmode=664 0 0

    - and don't forget, for a usb mass storage, to umount it from the host if
      it is mounted automatically.

thanks for your help
-- 
Pierre Frenkiel