Hello Chris, Le mercredi 16 février 2011 à 14:45 +0000, Chris G a écrit : > I am running a Windows XP guest uisng Virtualbox 3.2.12 in an xubuntu > 10.04 host. > > I'm trying to use a remote control programmer which is a USB device, the > device appears as a USB device in the devices menu but is greyed out so > I can't select it. > > I can't "un use" the device in the Linux host because it's not a mass > storage device that one can close there. > > How can I make the device available to the guest system? Is your user on the Linux host a member of the "vboxusers" group? See the user manual for more details.
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