[Solved] Grey USB peripherals.

[nc0d]

Hi all,
I am using Virtualbox 3.0.4 PUEL version on a Slackware host. The guest is windows xp with guest additions.
I tried to follow user manual but my usb peripherals still don't work : the peripherals list on the guest are grey.
I added usb filters and tried without, restarted the guest, unpluged the device.
I am not able to add my user to the vboxusers group since the group do not exist in /etc/group.
Does anyone have suggestions on getting usb peripherals working? Thanks in advance.

[Perryg]

Adding yourself to the VBox Users group in terminal as su

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usermod -aG vboxusers <your username>

[nc0d]

Hi Perryg, thanks for your reply.

usermod -aG vboxusers <your username>

The problem is that the vboxusers group was not created during the installation. Creating the group and joining it could be the solution?

[Perryg]

Slackware is not an official Host OS but it should be possible to get it to work as you want.
Maybe some reading here will help. http://www.google.com/search?q=install+ ... +slackware

[nc0d]

Ok, usb devices now work fine!
The problem was : the user that belongs to vboxusers group did not have rw rights on usbfs.
Here is how i fix that, it works for me, but i don't say it is the right way.
Modify the usbfs line in /etc/mtab like this :

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usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=102,devmode=0664 0 0             (102 is the vboxusers group id on my system.) 

Thanks fot the help here and on #vbox