usb not working in ubuntu 10.04

[nanog]

USB no longer works in ubuntu 10.04. There are vbox /dev/bus/usb entries and the host's usb bus shows up in the settings-->usb filter but no devices are detected:

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$VBoxManage list usbhost
<none>

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1370065

perhaps deprecation of hal is the problem.

(ps: i am using puel, have added myself to the vboxusers group, and usbfs is deprecated in ubuntu)

[nanog]

udev rules are identical to 9.10:

#cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules

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KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0600"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0664"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0664"

[Perryg]

Ubuntu 10.04 has eliminated hal in this (beta) version. VirtualBox relies heavily on hal and as such it has broken some things in VirtualBox. Bugtracker and timeline show they are working on this and by the time Ubuntu 10.04 is released it will work.

[erkiha]

As a temporary workaround for ubuntu lucid (10.4) you can run in terminal:

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hald --daemon=no

before running virtualbox to get usb working for guest os.

[vinu76jsr]

workaround not working , however Ihave not updated since a week , so 'll try after updating

[squiddy]

the workaround works well on my machine. still hoping the next vbox release will fix the problem

[Quantafac]

This work around doesn't work for me, is there anything else I can try?

Never mind, I updated ubuntu and it works now.

[kronbalt]

Nice workaround this worked for me as well

Thanks a lot