On 3/1/07, Pablo Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was able to get USB working with openSUSE 10.2 - to be precise, someone
> else figured it out for VMWare and it applies for VirtualBox.
>
> Many thanks to Alexey Eremenko for the hint on the kernel parameter which
> needed to be compiled.
>
> The basic upshot is there's a security hole by doing the following so only
> do this on a secured machine - see
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210899
>
> How to re-add USB support
> =========================
> 1) Recompile and install the openSUSE 10.2 stock kernel with
> CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
> 2) Comment out the old 'usbfs' entry in /etc/fstab and replace it with:
>
>         /dev/bus/usb   /proc/bus/usb   usbfs    defaults   0 0
>
> Done!
>
> Additional resources
> ====================
> The following link provides the crux of the solution:
>
>         http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=27788
>
> Cheers,
> -pablo

Ahh ! Very nice ! I might add this to my article.

I would be happy to see this reflected in official vbox documentation.

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