Hello all,
I'm new to the forums and don't know if I am posting in the right place but almighty Google didn't have the answer to what I'm looking for so I have come here in hopes that you all can enlighten me on what I am doing wrong.
A little about my system I am running on a dell with my operating system being Centos 7 on an M2 card with 64gb of ram. I have virtual box version 5.8 installed with guest additions as well as extensions installed.
Sp I have a USB plugged into my USB 3 but in the virtual box program (not the machine) it is not showing up when i go into the setting and look for it to capture it. is there something I am missing that isnt letting me view the USB or is it something glaringly obvious that I am just stupidly overlooking?
Virtual Box cant seem to find my USB
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Re: Virtual Box cant seem to find my USB
Post the guests log file ( as an attachment ). Right click on the guest in the Main Manager then click show log. Save and post as an attachment. Compress if it is too large to post.
Re: Virtual Box cant seem to find my USB
Here is the Log for the guest
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- UPS-2016-12-02-14-03-51.log
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Re: Virtual Box cant seem to find my USB
Log shows the availability of the device. What does id report from the hosts terminal?
Actually this appears to be a Linux host and Windows guest. so moving to Linux as host.
Actually this appears to be a Linux host and Windows guest. so moving to Linux as host.
Re: Virtual Box cant seem to find my USB
I found the problem which was something glaringly obvious. I wasnt running in root so my virtual box needed permissions to capture and view usb devices
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Re: Virtual Box cant seem to find my USB
Never run in root. Just add your user name to the vboxusers group and reboot. Running in root is very bad.
Re: Virtual Box cant seem to find my USB
Yeah thats what I did