Can't see USB on VirtualBox [Former: USB Re: TomTom on Ubuntu]

[Ray Leventhal]

LAMP wrote:
> Kind of related to this thread:
> 
> I tried to install TomTom HOME on my VirtualBox (thinkpad T61) to be 
> sure it could work on EeePC and got stuck. But not with TomTom HOME. I 
> attached TomTom to laptop but I wasn't abe to see it on VirtualBox. I 
> was able to see it on Ubuntu (host) and browser through it's files, but 
> no luck with VistualBox.
> 
> I was checking or a last 2 hours about this (very often) issue but not a 
> one helped me.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> LAMP

Ensure you're running the PUEL version of Virtualbox (PUEL=Personal Use 
& Evalulation License).  The .deb file is avail from [1].

The PUEL version is the only way I was able to mount host-inserted USB 
devices...no worries if you've loaded the Virtbox from 
repositories...your settings are still saved upon upgrading to PUEL.


YMMV, HTH,
-Ray

[1] http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads