virtualbox wont show USB ports in the guest OS

[Derek Broughton]

Reeyarn wrote:

> 2009/8/26 Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl>
> 
>> I hesitate a little to ask this question as it is I think one of the
>> most frequent problems with virtualbox. But the suggestions obtained
>> from the vbox list didn't work.
>> The problem is that the way Ubuntu(9.04) handles USB-ports is mysterious
>> to me and moreover, virtualbox apparently changed the handling of USB
>> ports between version 2.2 (which works in Hardy on one system) and
>> version 3.04.
> 
> 
> If you used apt-get install virtualbox-ose (Open Source Edition) or
> downloaded it from  http://www.virtualbox.org/?
> They are really different because ose edition doesn't seem to support USB
> device!

NO IT DOESN"T.  Will you please all get it through your heads that we KNOW 
that.  It is, in fact, why I have used the non-ose version for 3 years now.
-- 
derek