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Davigetto

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From: In your mind

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 266

Unable to get USB devices working on VirtualBOX (Puel)

Hello, when I put and USB device on a Windows Virtualbox machine, I always get this error:

Not permitted to open the USB device, check usbfs options

Is there any solution to this problem for arch?

This is my fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd   udf   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /home    ext3    defaults,noatime    0    0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=102,devmode=666 0 0

and showing you that I'm on the vboxusers group

[davigetto@helena ~]$ cat /etc/group | grep vbox
vboxusers:x:102:davigetto

I also load vboxdrv on rc.conf modules section, so Virtual Machines Works, only USB devices don't work.

Greetings

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ise

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From: Karlsruhe / Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 404

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Re: Unable to get USB devices working on VirtualBOX (Puel)

Hi,
your post is a little bit older. But I have never used USB on a VirtualBox. Yesterday I need to get working it.
I have add this:

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=<vboxusers-gid>,devmode=664 0 0

to my /etc/fstab and reboot my machine (maybe there is another possibility to get working it without reboot). After that, USB support fully works in the VirtualBox guest system.

Maybe your user isn't in the right groups.

Daniel

Last edited by ise (2007-09-25 06:20:45)

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