card reader

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>> Check in System / Administration / Users and Groups if your username
>> really belongs to the vboxusers group. For some weird reason USB
>> devices may be unreachable in VB when the user does not belong to this
>> group.
>>
> I just checked the user properties. My username is in that group, but in
> looking at the user privileges, I did notice that 'Use Virtualbox
> virtualization solution' was not checked. I'm wondering if this might not
> have something to do with the problem, although the fact that the
> fingerprint reader is available but not the card reader is  something more
> of a mystery. It would be nice to be able to selectively take those devices
> out but they don't show in the devices dialog. I'll check with the forums at
> virtualbox and, if all else fails, remove version 3 and install version 4
> and see where that takes me.


Before installing v. 4 try to reboot your system, VBox in embedded
into your kernel, sometimes it takes a reboot for a change to be
enabled.

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L M Nicolosi, Eng.
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