Hello Jim, No, it will only prevent that particular filter from picking up your mouse/keyboard. It won't prevent other filters picking them up.
Someone else solved this problem by adding a udev rule to create a filter when a new device was added. Not an ideal solution admitedly, but it did work. Regards, Michael Jim Wight wrote: > I am setting up a virtual machine for use by students. I would prefer it > if only their removable USB devices, and not permanently attached ones > such as the mouse and keyboard, were visible to them. Is it possible > using filters? It seems as if it should be, but I can't make any sense > of them. No matter what I do, every device is always present in the > guest. > > The help says: > > ...you can determine in detail which devices are available. For > this, you must create so-called "filters" by specifying certain > properties of the USB device. > > The more criteria you specify, the more precisely devices will > be selected. For instance, if you specify only a vendor ID of > 046d, all devices produced by Logitech will be available to the > guest. If you fill in all fields, on the other hand, the filter > will only apply to a particular device model from a particular > vendor, and not even to other devices of the same type with a > different revision and serial number. > > So, if I create a filter for the keyboard, say, and add a fictitious > serial number, should that not prevent that device from appearing in the > guest since the last part of the above quote should apply? > > As it doesn't, what am I misunderstanding? > > Jim _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
