On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:12:54 Emanuele Gesuato wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using Virtual Box 2.0.6 (NOT the open source edition but the other
> one), my host system is linux ubuntu 8.0.4 and the guest os is Windows
> XP II Edition.
>
> I've got the "famous" error "Could not load the Hos USB Proxy Service
> (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND). The service might be not be installed on the host
> computer".
>
>
> The very strange thing is that yesterday the USB support worked well, i
> was able to do a synchronization with my palm in Windows XP. Today i've
> tried to re-follow the instructions explained here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#USB
>
> but the problem still remains. Maybe the problem is in the lines:
>          #
>          # Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work in virtualbox version < 2.0.6
>          #
>          mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
>          domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs usbfs
> -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
>          ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
>          mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
>
> That works only with virtualbox version < 2.0.6. But what about 2.0.6 ?
> I've tried to comment all of them or to uncomment only the last line (it
> seems that /proc/bus/usb must still be mounted) but anything worked.
> Is it wrong to make them uncommented in vbox 2.0.6 ?
>
> Or maybe the problem is in another place.
>
> Today (never tried before) i also tried to add the following line to
> /etc/fstab:
> none            /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   devgid=130,     devmode=664
> 0       0
>
> where "130" is the virtualbox group but nothing changes.
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Emanuele Gesuato
>
>
>
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When I see that message it is usually because I forgot to mount usbfs before 
starting VirtualBox.  

This is what my fstab looks like on open SUSE 11.0:

usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      
auto,busgid=1000,busmode=0775,devgid=1000,devmode=0664   0 0

I found this in the archives somewhere. When i put the two entries like you 
have it was not stable. Could have just been openSUSE issue.

Not sure if this will help you
-- 
Russ
Registered Linux User #441463

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