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madpierre

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

OK. We'll re-trace here. You're in vboxsf and vboxusers on the host. Try replacing "virtualbox-host-modules-arch" with "virtualbox-host-dkms" .

barko

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Registered: 2011-05-31

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

OK. We'll re-trace here. You're in vboxsf and vboxusers on the host. Try replacing "virtualbox-host-modules-arch" with "virtualbox-host-dkms" .

This I did already, same. I reinstall virtualbox, same.

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madpierre

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Enable USB 1.1 on the hypervisor. Reboot hypervisor.

Last edited by madpierre (2016-06-20 12:22:24)

barko

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Enable USB 1.1 on the hypervisor. Reboot hypervisor.

Done. No success.

madpierre

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Is dkms installed on the host? Also, I ran into issues some time ago that required the installation of virtualbox-qt.

This is a stretch but I'll ask. Did you enable vboxservice?

madpierre

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

If you have to install dkms a machine reboot will be required- sorry.

barko

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Is dkms installed on the host? Also, I ran into issues some time ago that required the installation of virtualbox-qt.

This is a stretch but I'll ask. Did you enable vboxservice?

Reboot is already done, about vboxservice, no. I didnt do anything on that matter. I was follow instruction on the wiki.

here is result of trying to enable vboxservice:

sudo systemctl enable vboxservice
Failed to enable unit: No such file or directory

madpierre

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

$ sudo systemctl enable vboxservice.service

Might require a machine reboot

barko

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

$ sudo systemctl enable vboxservice.service

Might require a machine reboot

It's same thing. No such file or directory. Strange. Maybe has this version of the virtualbox some sort of a bug on that matter...

madpierre

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Something's not right (says Mr. Obvious). One more time, enter # systemctl enable vboxservice.service     (su)

Reboot machine.

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Slithery

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Vboxservice is only used on an Arch Linux guest, the OP has a Windows XP guest.

On an Arch host you won't have the vboxservice as the guest utils aren't installed.

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barko

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Indeed. There is no such service available to enable...

madpierre

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Thanks @slithery. Didn't give it a thought. Perhaps you have some ideas for the OP. About out of 'em on this end.

Last edited by madpierre (2016-06-20 13:48:11)

barko

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

I will fill a bug report. Thank you madpierre for all your input in here. Thank you all.

madpierre

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Don't give up @barko. You might also check-in at virtualbox.org. @slithery and some of the other forum wizards may have some pointers. My last thought is you might try downgrading to the previous Virtualbox package if all else fails.

Good luck.

All the best,

Last edited by madpierre (2016-06-20 13:47:42)

madpierre

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

One last "hail Mary"- make sure you're in the groups ($ id <username>)

marmai

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

I don't know the solution to the problem, but maybe the reason:

Check if any cloud client (OwnCloud, Synology Cloud Station, ...) is running and stop it.

See https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=76447

barko

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

I don't know the solution to the problem, but maybe the reason:

Check if any cloud client (OwnCloud, Synology Cloud Station, ...) is running and stop it.

See https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=76447

Thanks for your input, but here i do not have cloud system installed. It's clean arch and virtualbox only, and I do not see usbs until i do not run virtualbox as root user, then i see them. Anyway, thank you again.

Hydranix

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Total shot in the dark: Try adding yourself to the "scanner" group?

These kinds of problems are what drove me to permanently prefer QEMU.

barko

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Total shot in the dark: Try adding yourself to the "scanner" group?

These kinds of problems are what drove me to permanently prefer QEMU.

No luck with that too. I'll try qemu, I didnt even thinking about it. Thanks for the idea!

ewaller

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

One last sanity check.  How did you install VirtualBox?

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

Did you install this package?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virt … xt-oracle/

barko

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

One last sanity check.  How did you install VirtualBox?

I have installed this packages:

community/virtualbox 5.1.0-1
community/virtualbox-host-dkms 5.1.0-1
aur/virtualbox-ext-oracle 5.1.0-1

and this one later

community/virtualbox-guest-modules-arch 5.1.0-2

ewaller

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

community/virtualbox-guest-modules-arch should only be installed if the Arch system is the guest.  In your case it is the host (unless you are running an Arch guest on an Arch host -- there are use cases for that)
Those other three packages are all you should need.   I was checking that you did not have something installed from the AUR.

Last sanity check.  What are the output of groups
?

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barko

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Re: virtualbox - no usb devices as user in the vboxusers group

community/virtualbox-guest-modules-arch should only be installed if the Arch system is the guest.  In your case it is the host (unless you are running an Arch guest on an Arch host -- there are use cases for that)
Those other three packages are all you should need.   I was checking that you did not have something installed from the AUR.

Last sanity check.  What are the output of groups
?

Yeah, I know about guest modules, but it's really not important at all, is not working with or without it anyway. I'm running Arch on normal PC.

Here are cat /etc/group and users in them:

root:x:0:root
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon
daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon
sys:x:3:root,bin
adm:x:4:root,daemon
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:root
lp:x:7:daemon
mem:x:8:
kmem:x:9:
wheel:x:10:root,barko
ftp:x:11:
mail:x:12:
uucp:x:14:
log:x:19:root
utmp:x:20:
locate:x:21:
rfkill:x:24:
smmsp:x:25:
proc:x:26:polkitd
http:x:33:
games:x:50:
lock:x:54:
uuidd:x:68:
dbus:x:81:
network:x:90:barko
video:x:91:
audio:x:92:barko
optical:x:93:barko
floppy:x:94:
storage:x:95:barko
scanner:x:96:barko
input:x:97:
power:x:98:barko
nobody:x:99:
users:x:100:
systemd-journal:x:190:
systemd-journal-gateway:x:191:
systemd-timesync:x:192:
systemd-network:x:193:
systemd-bus-proxy:x:194:
systemd-resolve:x:195:
systemd-coredump:x:997:
systemd-journal-remote:x:998:
systemd-journal-upload:x:999:
polkitd:x:102:
nvidia-persistenced:x:143:
avahi:x:84:
colord:x:124:
rtkit:x:133:
deepin-daemon:x:996:
lightdm:x:620:
autologin:x:619:barko
git:x:618:
vboxusers:x:108:barko
kvm:x:78:

and here groups

wheel network audio optical storage scanner power users vboxusers autologin

Last edited by barko (2016-07-18 18:33:41)