Options will be greyed out if the VM is currently running. First make sure the VM is shut down and closed, and then go into settings. A lot of options are disabled because you need to change them BEFORE you run the VM.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:56 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > Running Win2K in VirtualBox on Slackware. I ran lsusb and saw that > Slackware sees the foot pedal. > After installing guest additions I plugged in my USB foot pedal, but > VirtualBox sees no USB devices. in the USB settings for the virtual > machine, Enable USB Controller, while checked, is grayed out. the radio > button for USB1.1 is selected. But when I right click on the USB icon at > the bottom of the VirtualBox window, it says, "No USB Devices > Connected." I was able to create a USB Device Filter for the foot pedal, > copying the information I have in my Win7 virtual machine running on my > desktop. But that didn't help. > > Is there something else I need to do to implement USB support in > VirtualBox for Slackware? On Ubuntu I had to use the version from > Oracle, not the open source version. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
