virtualbox wont show USB ports in the guest OS

[Derek Broughton]

Joep L. Blom wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:

> I see you also have no idea how USB ports are managed in Ubuntu. One
> thing is for sure, they are available and working. Another thing is I
> can imagine that virtualbox wants to have exclusive rights over the
> ports. But how they manage that is very unclear.

Well, it's changed a lot since I actually worked on a USB driver, but at the 
time it was just a matter of the app that takes control of the device 
setting a flag in the device control block.  From the point of view of the 
host OS, the VirtualBox client grabbing a device is no different from 
letting your Host software do it.
-- 
derek