VirtualBox OpenSuse Problem

[bci24sg22]

Hi everyone! I have just installed virtualbox 2.0.2 and i have a problem with the usb. I installed windows xp. When i go to settings:

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Could not load the Host USB Proxy Service (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND). The service might be not installed on the host computer.


Result Code: 
NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x00004005)
Component: 
Host
Interface: 
IHost {489fb370-c227-4d43-9761-ceb28484fd9f}
Callee: 
IMachine {1e509de4-d96c-4f44-8b94-860194f710ac}

I use opensuse 11 and my user is in the group lp,vboxusers. Can anyoane help me please to solve this?

thx! Cheers!

[greenpossum]

I don't know if this is in the VBox FAQ, but it certainly is a FAQ on http://forums.opensuse.org. Basically you have to mount a usbfs. The exact details differ between distros. Do a search in those forums for how. Sorry I can't tell you offhand because I've never bothered to do this, never needed the facility. If you don't need USB in your guest OS, you can ignore the message and continue.

[bci24sg22]

I found why... i had to add the following entry to /etc/fstab:

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none  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  auto,busgid=XXX,busmode=0775,devgid=XXX,devmode=0664  0  0

Replace XXX by the group ID of the group vboxusers. You can determine this value by executing

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grep vboxusers /etc/group

Of course, the current user should be member of that group. After the next reboot, there should be a directory /proc/bus/usb/ and the device entries below should be accessible by any user of the vboxusers group.

Cheers!