USB devices grayed out

[pfaulstich]

I am running a Vista guest on an Ubuntu host using a PUEL install. I am a member of the vboxusers group.

When I look at the devices menu, all the USB devices that I specified by creating filters for them are listed, but grayed out. It does not seem to matter whether they are mounted on the host system or not.

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Paul

[pfaulstich]

I should have mentioned that yes, the guest additions are installed. and I've rebooted the Windows guest machine many times (try something, reboot, try something, reboot, etc).

[Dai]

http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/vide ... riesID=365

I had the same problem so I made a video of how I solved the problem (see link above) not sure if it will work for you but take a look and see.

[Perryg]

@pfaulstich,
Are you really using the OSE version of VBox?
If so then that is the problem. USB is not supported in the OSE version.

[den123123]

Add yourself into usb user group on host system.

[Girts]

Hi Paul,

You're not alone in this. I have exactly the same on some of my USB devices. Like you, I'm using PUEL and I'm in the Vbox user group. I've re-installed Vbox and Guest Additions. I've tried Dai's advice above. But no joy. These devices used to work until I upgraded Ubuntu, then some kept working but two of them, both Canon printers, stopped. They're enabled in Vbox, but greyed out in XP.

Wish I could help!
Girts

[constant]

until I upgraded Ubuntu

That seems to happen a lot.
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