Hello, Yuhui Liu! On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:52:12 -0800 You wrote:
> > The problem is that my USB key can only be detected by the host but
> > not the VM. I already enabled it in the virtualbox settings since
> > the USB list says: "USB 1 (1 active)". And I can see the USB key in
> > the menu "Devices"->"USB Devices" but it's greyed out. If I click
> > on it, there's a check sign shows up in the left side of the item
> > till the mouse pointer moves away from this item.
> >
> > What should I do to share this USB device? *
I run VirtualBox on 32 bit x86 linux and I can share USB keys/disks
only if I mount usbfs with right permissions (user running vbox must
have rights to write to usbfs):
bash$ cat /etc/groups | grep usb
usbusers:x:105:oleg
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# Mount usbfs:
USBFS_GID=$(cat /etc/group | grep usbusers | cut -d: -f3)
if grep -wq usbfs /proc/filesystems; then
if ! grep -wq usbfs /proc/mounts ; then
/sbin/mount -v -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb -o
busmode=0775,busgid=$USBFS_GID,devmode=0664,devgid=$USBFS_GID,listmode=0664,listgid=$USBFS_GID
fi
fi
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After /sbin/mount must be one string of course
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