On Friday 30 January 2009 03:40:03 pm Andre Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am fairly new to VirtualBox, but it remembers me when VMWare was
light,
> and was working pretty fast and easy.
>
> I was able to install VirtualBox with a bit of search, since then, the only
> problem that I have is the use of USB devices. When I click over the
USB
> Icon, I see the devices but they stay greyed our, so I can select any.
>
> But the behavior is better when I use the root account, I can do what ever
> with it. They are not greyed out.
>
> Look's like a rights issue, but how can I change the rights to USB
devices,
> using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> André Desnoyers
>
>
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Not sure about Red Hat. But on openSUSE three things are needed to get
USB to work beside all the dependencies mentioned in the manual.
1. Use the virtualBox version with usb support from the Sub website. (The
version supplied with openSUSE or from the repo's does not support
usb.There are SUSE and Red Hat RPMs on the sun website.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
2. /etc/fstab needs to be modified as per the manual.
3. you must mount usbfs before entering VirtualBox and starting your guest
machine. I have Win XP as a guest. on openSUSE 11.1
Hope this will help you.
--
Russ
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