I am affected too - I have the same problem with Virtualbox 3.2 in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, need USB to use my Visioneer scanner and Paperport software and was somewhat disappointed when reading this discussion. I had added my user to the Virtualbox group and tried to get usbfs running to no avail. However, things are not as bad as they seem here...
I did not want to leave apt-get so easily behind and return to the dire depths of RPM. I found the following discussion in the SUSE forums: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/unreviewed-how- faq/412602-virtual-box-usb-tips-3.html I would like to point out the following quote: "Now things have become much better, from VirtualBox 3.08 it will use the hal udev method by default, no matter if usbfs is mounted under /proc/bus/usb/, and that's good news." The post goes on to say the following: Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules to look like this: KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0600" SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0664" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE:="0664" Notice the ":" in 'MODE:="664"'! To make the change resistent to VirtualBox upgrades make a copy /etc/udev/rules.d/11-vboxdrv.rules, that's it. For me, this little edit did the trick. I have successfully scanned a page with Paperport from within Windows XP inside a Virtualbox machine. And I did not have to switch from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx to a different flavour of Linux. I would also like to point out a similar post in the Virtualbox forums: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19381&p=123942# Good luck to people out there looking for this solution, it works not just in SUSE but also in my Ubuntu. -- Linux kernel 2.6.31-18 in Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala doesn't support usbfs. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
