Joep L. Blom wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Joep L. Blom wrote: >>> Mikkel, >>> Sorry for asking the obvious but I haven't found it in the manual. The >>> paragraph on USB does only tell you to be subscribed to the vboxusers >>> group as I did. I have no idea which permissions have to be set, >>> especially as vbox is started from the user account (and not from root). >>> I have permissions for networkdevices, disks so I can use my >>> peripherals, however, USB devices not. If you can give me a hint where I >>> have to look I would be grateful. >>> Joep >>> >> Section 11.5.7 of the manual. It is also in the FAQs. >> >> One other thing - I hope what you mean by subscribed to the >> vboxusers group means you added your Linux user name to the Linux >> group vboxusers. >> > Mikkel, > Thanks for your reply. Of course that's what it is and I had looked, > before I wrote my questions on that section - therefore adding the local > user (joep) to the vboxusers group. The rest of that section, as stated > explicitly is for older systems, I assume either older versions of > virtualbox or older OS-versions, both is not the case (new version of > Ubuntu, virtualbox version 3.5.04 r50677). herefore there is apparently > something other that's refusing the USB to the guest. > Other suggestion?
I had a similar permission issue that I traced to the pcscd daemon. This process handles USB SmartCard readers and made some assumptions about permissions in its startup script in /etc/init.d/pcscd. In this case I commented out one line and added a second: # mount -n -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb >/dev/null 2>&1 mount -n -t usbfs -o busgid=1000,busmode=0775,devgid=1000,devmode=0664 usbfs /proc/bus/usb >/dev/null 2>&1 I think the lesson here is that other packages that use the USB system "may" foul up VirtualBox. Regards, Lew Wolfgang _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
