virtualbox wont show USB ports in the guest OS
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Thu Aug 27 08:05:05 UTC 2009
Joep L. Blom wrote:
> But for your information, no it isn't an USB hard drive but the
> output of a weatherstation (known under various brand names
> Honeywell, Irox, TFA, to name a few) and the software is Windows
> only.
> However, also a Cruzer USb-stick isn't seen in the Windows guest,
> although it is seen greyed out in the device tab of the guest window.
Just an idea: Could it be that you still have the usbfs entry in fstab
from the older version of Virtualbox? If yes, maybe it interferes with
the new way of handling USB. BTW: I don't see USB problems with
Virtualbox here (Virtualbox 3.04 + Kubuntu 9.04).
Nils
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