On Thursday 06 December 2007, Danila F wrote:
> Hello! I try to attach usb flash memory and usb printer to guest WinXP
> on host Debian. The devices are seen by VBox but they are greyed out in
> the menu. When working as root all is OK.
>
> >From the command line it looks like that:
>
> ~$ VBoxManage controlvm vw1 usbattach /proc/bus/usb/001/003
> VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.5.2
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> All rights reserved.
>
> [!] FAILED calling console->AttachUSBDevice (usbId) at line 4525!
> [!] Primary RC = 0x80070057
> [!] Full error info present: true , basic error info present: true
> [!] Result Code = 0x80070057
> [!] Text = USB device 'Canon Canon CAPT USB Printer' with UUID
> {3957e740- 3683-42b5-8485-a3cbd96f72a3} is being exclusively used by the
> host computer
> ....
>
> I tried to play with udev ownership-permissions for dev nodes, but it
> seems not to solve the problem. Though I am not quite sure...Most probably there is a USB driver on the host active for this device. Unload this driver manually and try again. Type cat /dev/bus/usb/devices and look for a line "Driver=" belonging to your device. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert innotek AG, http://www.innotek.de
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