On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Frank Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Javier,
>
> On Thursday 14 August 2008, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> > I've downloaded and installed under my debian unstable amd64 machine
>> > the package:
>> >
>> > virtualbox_1.6.4-33808_Debian_etch_amd64.deb
>> >
>> > And of course I've installed as well the guest additions software.
>
> Which guest?
Win XP (+ SP2 + more security patches).
>> > However I'm unable to use USB devices in the guest, and I'm unable to
>> > use a shared folder previously set through the gui. Which surprises
>> > me is that what I thought more complex, ethernet bridging is working
>> > nice, while usb + shared folders aren't...
>> >
>> > I've tried several suggestions found on the web, mostly associated to
>> > permissions of the usbfs devices, but I haven't been lucky at all...
>> > Any one which got both shared folders and usb devices working under
>> > debian unstable?
>
> USB: What is the output of
>
> VBoxManage list usbhost
This worked for me already, although I didn't like the way to make it
work, since I had to run as root:
chmod -R a+rw /proc/bus/usb
This was suggested previously, and I thought it didn't work, but it
did... I before modified:
/etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules
Adding the usbfs group to:
# usbfs-like devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", MODE="0664", GROUP="usbusers"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", \
MODE="0664", GROUP="usbusers"
And adding the user to run virtualBox to usbusers. But that didn't
work at all... I tried also including vboxusers as the group, but
that didn't work... Finally I tried changing 664 to 666 and that
didn't work, which I didn't really understand, since that should be
equivalent to changing the permissions manually...
Any ways, now USB is working at least...
> ? Are you sure that the user which is starting VBox has read access to
> /proc/bus/usb/devices and read+write access to /proc/bus/usb/*/*?
Solved...
> Shared folders: This depends on the guest.
Win XP + guest additions... This is the method I'd like to use for
documents sharing...
> Kind regards,
>
> Frank
Thanks a lot,
--
Javier
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