virtualbox wont show USB ports in the guest OS

[Joep L. Blom]

NoOp wrote:
> On 09/02/2009 02:53 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
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>>> Joep,
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>>> Did you ever get this sorted out?
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>>> Gary
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>> Gerry,
>> Short answer: No.
>> Longer answer: I have a lame disk on my other system and have to sort 
>> that out first ( bring all critical programs to the other system) and 
>> then MUST sort the problem as the other will become my production machine.
>> One of the possibilities is that I have a cripple virtualbox because 
>> when I installed it and ran it the first time it froze the system (X+KB 
>> +mouse) and I could only get it working by killing virtualbox froma 
>> remote system. But suddenly - by some magic?? - iy starte to work. But I 
>> will remove it first completely and do a fresh reinstall. Or do you have 
>> another suggestion? On the virtualbox list I have had a lot of 
>> suggestions dealing with udev and installing an usbfs but until now it 
>> has had no effect. Tomorrow I'm away and I hope to find time on friday 
>> to solve the problem. I will report here when I have made progress.
>> Thanks for your interest.
>> Joep
> 
> Reinstalling may indeed be the best option. Let us know how it goes & if
> you need help off-list drop me a note.
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> Gary
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Gary, and everybody else who invested time and thoughts to my problem 
with USB ports, as an update I can tell that the problem is - 
practically solved.
The solution: removing virtualbox completely and reinstalling it from 
the repository as I had it originally installed directly from the SUN site.
I now see my special device and the W XP program runs and is collecting 
data.
The only small problem I have is that an USB-stick can not be tagged but 
a small window pops up and tells me that there is something amiss with 
usbfs and I can correct this. I assume some permissions are still not 
correct.
So Derek, with respect to your webcam maybe something in usbfs need to 
be corrected. I remember vaguely that several rules can be adapted to 
solve permission problems.
Joep