Graham Campbell wrote: > I am having the old problem with all the possible USB attached devices > being grayed out in the Devices/USB menu item for the guest. This is > true for all guests. The host is a Fedora 10 system, using the PUEL > VirtualBox. I know it must be a permissions problem because if I start > the GUI under the root account it works correctly. But I have not been > able to find the problem. > Specifically, I created a new user and added it to the vboxusers > group.I executed "newgrp vboxusers" and then "VirtualBox". I created a > new VM and added a filter for the USB->Serial adapter that I had > attached. I start the new machine and the entry for the serial adapter > is grayed out! > Can somebody point me to all the things that have to be checked out? > Could it be the host machine locking out access? Well, Fedora 10 is still using the USB file system, so you have a couple of options - you can change the group and permissions to give Vbox users access, or you can do like I do. I have a udev rule that changes the permission and group of specific devices. It all depends on how much access you want to give the guest OS.
If you want to change /proc/bus/usb, you will have to use the remount option of mount, or go into the initrd and change how it is mounted. If you go my route, you need to know enough information about the device to write a used rule for it. It is more complicated then just remounting /proc/bus/usb. Let me know if you are interested in the details... Mike -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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