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Can't get USB to work in Windows XP Guest OS
Posted: 6. Apr 2009, 13:52
by eightbits
I have Ubuntu 8.10 and VirtulBox 2.1.4.
I have tried all sorts of things but I cannot get USB devices to be detected by the guest OS.
Virtual box detects them and I am able to make filters for them. Once I select the device in Virtual Box though, windows never detects it.
I have gone into fstab and added the following line but that also didn't fix the issue:
none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=501,devmode=664 0 0
(I put the VboxUsers ID for devgid).
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks
Re: Can't get USB to work in Windows XP Guest OS
Posted: 6. Apr 2009, 14:17
by Sasquatch
Check
VirtualBox FAQ. It's /proc/bus/usb.
Re: Can't get USB to work in Windows XP Guest OS
Posted: 6. Apr 2009, 14:35
by pricesully
have you let windows update?
I did that and usb came on-line after the restart
good luck
Re: Can't get USB to work in Windows XP Guest OS
Posted: 6. Apr 2009, 23:41
by eightbits
I went through the manual and found the follwing:
VirtualBox can only proxy to virtual machines USB
devices which are not claimed by a Linux host USB driver. Please refer to the Driver=
entry in /proc/bus/usb/devices to see which devices are claimed.
I opened the devices file in vim and didn't see any mention of the "Drivers =" line. It is definitely being picked up by VirtualBox because Ubuntu wont detect it as long as it is checked off in VirtualBox.
I am currently doing the Windows updates to see if that helps, but is there something else that I am missing?
Thanks
Re: Can't get USB to work in Windows XP Guest OS
Posted: 6. Apr 2009, 23:47
by Sasquatch
You need to change your fstab entry to match that of the FAQ. Of course the GID is different.
Re: Can't get USB to work in Windows XP Guest OS
Posted: 7. Apr 2009, 00:35
by eightbits
Sasquatch wrote:You need to change your fstab entry to match that of the FAQ. Of course the GID is different.
Here is how my fstab looks:
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=619bad25-aa3b-4217-b54c-79b3c6e1d6ec / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=20992cd4-7f25-40e7-9c5c-3fa24d70ddd3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
#
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=125,devmode=664 0 0
I found the devgid for vboxusers in group management.
Updating windows to SP3 did nothing. I also found an article saying to change permissions on /etc/udev to 777, but that didn't work either.