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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The USB extension packs are for Vbox
4.2.16 but Ubuntu repositories seem to be lagging behind with
4.1.12. If I try to install 4.1.16 I get an incompatibility
message. <br>
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On 12/07/2013 13:51, Bruce Pieterse wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/07/2013 09:36, Wayne Abroue
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<div dir="ltr">Yep, extension pack a must to enable USB.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Jan
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<div>Many thanks for all the help and suggestions. We
will be away for a few days and I will follow up and
let you know the result next week. <br>
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Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Jan
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On 12/07/2013 08:40, Graeme Donaldson wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">You'll have to install the
VirtualBox Extension Pack from <a
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href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads"
target="_blank">https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads</a>
to enable USB support. I *think* it makes a lot
of noise about this when you attempt to enable
USB on a guest for the first time, but in case
it doesn't.... now you know! :-)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Virtualbox handles USB fine,
plug in and enable the device from the usb
icon. The VM will scream for the drivers. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Jul
11, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Frans de waal
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On Jul 11, 2013 10:04 PM,
"Wesley Werner" <<a
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> I can't vouch for
Virtualbox, but it seems like
QEMU / KVM has usb passthrough
[1]. I have not used this
feature of KVM before so
cannot give you specifics.<br>
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> I feel your pain on this,
and feel you are delving into
a world that would involve
voodoo. Good luck!<br>
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> [1]: <a
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href="http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#usb_005fdevices"
target="_blank">http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#usb_005fdevices</a><br>
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<p>I recall seeing usb options on
virtual box... not curently
close to my pc to check though</p>
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<p>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013
at 8:59 PM, Jan Greeff <<a
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>> This seems over my
head, will it be easier to
get my USB ports to work on
my Oracle VM Virtualbox
4.1.2?<br>
>><br>
>> Jan<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 11/07/2013
15:10, Bruce Pieterse wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 11/07/2013
14:24, Wesley Werner wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Hi Jan. I
tried to backtrack what app
you are meaning, can you
please reiterate what app,
and if there is a chance of
an alternative native app?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Not sure
about WINE's hardware
interaction (usb).<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi,<br>
>>><br>
>>> As far as USB
support goes for WINE, it
doesn't work. I set up
iTunes a while back
(11.10/12.04) and tried to
get my iPod working with it.
Unfortunately, after doing
all that then looking for
any articles relating to
WINE USB support the answer
was no and the alternative
solution was to setup a
virtual machine with USB
passthrough.<br>
>>><br>
>>> BUT, looking
for an answer today I found
this: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.winehq.org/USB"
target="_blank">http://wiki.winehq.org/USB</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> If it works,
please let me know! :)<br>
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You will also need to add yourself to the vboxusers group in order
for Virtualbox to provide USB support. You can do this with "sudo
usermod -a -G vboxusers username". Once done, you can logout of
your desktop session (not 100% sure if this works), or do a soft
reboot.<br>
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