Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread JD
On 05/03/11 17:50, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, JD wrote: >> On 05/03/11 15:54, Richard Shaw wrote: >>> The way USB devices work in virtualbox is not very intuitive. Have you >>> tried adding empty filters instead (the first button with the small >>> blue circle)? >>> >>>

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, JD wrote: > On 05/03/11 15:54, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> The way USB devices work in virtualbox is not very intuitive. Have you >> tried adding empty filters instead (the first button with the small >> blue circle)? >> >> The + button is for adding devices that you

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Smart
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:15 AM, JD wrote: > > I have disabled selinux. So I have no idea what/who > is changing it back. This is the reason why I am asking > this list. The virtualbox list does not seem to have > an answer. You probably need to create a udev rule to match your device and change t

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread JD
On 05/03/11 15:54, Richard Shaw wrote: > > The way USB devices work in virtualbox is not very intuitive. Have you > tried adding empty filters instead (the first button with the small > blue circle)? > > The + button is for adding devices that you want mapped to your VM by > default (on VM startup)

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM, JD wrote: > On 05/03/11 14:52, Richard Shaw wrote: >> Have you had USB working in VB at any point or just not with this device? > > I was using this device in VB in the previous release. No problems! > >> Have you added a few empty USB filters to your VM? > I tried,

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread JD
On 05/03/11 14:52, Richard Shaw wrote: > Have you had USB working in VB at any point or just not with this device? I was using this device in VB in the previous release. No problems! > Have you added a few empty USB filters to your VM? I tried, and I filled the fields based on the info in /var/lo

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, JD wrote: > On 05/03/11 14:21, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, JD  wrote: >>> I have a flash disk which is detected as /dev/sdc >>> >>> I need to use it as a virtualbox device. >>> So I created a vmdk for the disk and registered it. >>> Furthe

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread JD
On 05/03/11 14:21, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, JD wrote: >> I have a flash disk which is detected as /dev/sdc >> >> I need to use it as a virtualbox device. >> So I created a vmdk for the disk and registered it. >> Furthermore, virtualbox requires that in order to use >>

Re: Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, JD wrote: > I have a flash disk which is detected as /dev/sdc > > I need to use it as a virtualbox device. > So I created a vmdk for the disk and registered it. > Furthermore, virtualbox requires that in order to use > the device, the device must belong to the group

Changing the gid and perms on a device

2011-05-03 Thread JD
I have a flash disk which is detected as /dev/sdc I need to use it as a virtualbox device. So I created a vmdk for the disk and registered it. Furthermore, virtualbox requires that in order to use the device, the device must belong to the group vboxusers. So I chmod'ed it to vboxusers. But someho