On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:

On 01/08/13 12:54, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 01.08.2013 18:43, schrieb Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni:
VirtualBox defaults to using the CDROM/DVD drive which is pretty worthless unless you have a supply of blanks, I don't have many on hand presently. I have been trying to make the USB function work without much success.

Googling suggests group/user problems, I have bobg and root listed as vboxusers. The GUI has a USB menu which is always grayed, where I can create a filter, it recognizes the Sandisk flash drive
when entered, I click on OK and nothing is saved apparently.

Now I've run across something in google that suggests an entry in fstab may be required?

Has any one worked through this maze who can tell me how to make it work?
what package?
USB support is simply not available for the OSE version

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22174


Ok, I give up, wont waste any more effort on that then but it really diminishes the usefulness of VB!

Thanks,

Bob


I can read and write to a flash drive without problems.  It worked out of the box for me. 
 I tried to post a screenshot, but it got held up in moderation.  In the old versions of 
VirtualBox, USB  support was in the "guest additions" package, as I remember, 
but I haven't had to install that for some time.  I can't remember if you are using the 
virtualbox.org package or the one in the repositories, but you may have to install the 
exension pack.  See: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads.  But I gotta say that I 
didn't have to do this when I installed it using apper.  It just worked out of the box.

billo
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