Hello Rance,
On 29 April 2011 00:44, Rance Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
I must have done something wrong with my attempt to upgrade to 4.0.6
> on my windows host.
>
> USB quit working. Period.
>
> I posted an email when it first happened and the response was "Make
> sure your user is in the vboxusers group."
>
> I can't do that on a standalone windows host, so I downgraded back to
> 4.0.4 and my problem went away. Seems to me that there is something
> significantly different between the two versions, but what I have no
> idea.
>
On my laptop VirtualBox does not run on a Windows host but on Linux.
I had a similar problem with Linux (the permissions on the VirtualBox USB
device directory were wrong).
I fixed it the following way:
root@aurora:~# ls -alR /dev/vboxusb/
total 0
drw-r----- 5 root vboxusers 100 Apr 28 18:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 3760 Apr 29 08:28 ..
drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 40 Apr 28 14:47 002
drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 60 Apr 29 07:27 003
drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 40 Apr 29 08:28 004
root@aurora:~# chmod -Rc ug+wx /dev/vboxusb/
mode of `/dev/vboxusb/' changed to 0770 (rwxrwx---)
mode of `/dev/vboxusb/003' changed to 0770 (rwxrwx---)
mode of `/dev/vboxusb/004' changed to 0770 (rwxrwx---)
mode of `/dev/vboxusb/002' changed to 0770 (rwxrwx---)
And USB was working again..
Could it be a permissions issue on your Windows machine as well? Did you try
running VirtualBox as a user with elevated privileges/Administrator or as a
normal user?
Regards,
Ray
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