Public bug reported: Binary package hint: udev
Note: I am one of the upstream VirtualBox developers. Currently, VirtualBox upstream installs its own udev rule to let it access USB devices using the raw device nodes under /dev/bus/usb. This is not particularly nice, as it basically means that we are trying to redefine distribution udev policy instead of cooperating with it. It would be great if we could find a way of doing this that everyone agrees on, so that we don't have to do "hostile takeovers" of devices. I was thinking along the lines of some distribution-provided way of selecting USB devices (by device ID, or by USB port or whatever), so that the devices selected would be made read and writeable to a particular group, but also no longer used for other purposes - i.e. if a mass storage device were selected, Ubuntu would not offer to open a Nautilus window for it when it was inserted. I filed this against udev because it seemed like a good starting place, but not necessarily because I think that it is the right package to fix this in. In the first place, I am looking for a discussion of the best way to deal with this. I will also be talking to other distributions about this, but I will wait to see what you think about it first. A couple of additional notes. I am interested in this feature for VirtualBox, but of course it would be equally useful to other virtualisers. And the Linux kernel as of version 2.6.32 is due to add a feature which will let the user select a physical USB port for use by user-space only, so that the kernel will never attach drivers other than those needed for user-space device access for devices plugged into those ports. See http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=124650199917239&w=2 for more details about this. ** Affects: udev (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Feature request: allow user to select USB devices for use with VirtualBox or others https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472544 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
