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no USB device available
Posted: 1. May 2013, 17:00
by fbusse
I have installed VirtualBox from the Oracle sources, including Guest Additions and Extension Pack (all v4.2.12 r84980), and I'm member of vboxusers, host is Lubuntu 12.04 (precise), guest is a fresh XP Home/SP2.
USB-devices connected to the host (and correctly recognized, and usable) are not recognized by VirtualBox: According to the guests' devices menu no USB device is connected (German version: "Kein USB-Gerät angeschlossen").
Any idea where I should have a closer look at?
Re: no USB device available
Posted: 1. May 2013, 18:17
by Perryg
Did you log off or reboot the host after you added your name to the vboxusers group?
Re: no USB device available
Posted: 1. May 2013, 18:25
by fbusse
Perryg wrote:Did you log off or reboot the host after you added your name to the vboxusers group?
Sorry, I forgot to mention that: Yes, I finished the install (including adding myself to vboxusers) some days ago, and even shut down and freshly started the system several times.
Re: no USB device available
Posted: 1. May 2013, 18:39
by Perryg
Post the results of the following from a terminal
id
VBoxManage list usbhost
VBoxManage list extpacks
Re: no USB device available
Posted: 2. May 2013, 06:02
by fbusse
Perryg wrote:id
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uid=501(myname) gid=500(users) Gruppen=500(users),4(adm),21(fax),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),110(lpadmin),112(admin),113(netdev),114(sambashare),127(vboxusers)
Perryg wrote:VBoxManage list usbhost
Perryg wrote:VBoxManage list extpacks
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Extension Packs: 1
Pack no. 0: Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Version: 4.2.12
Revision: 84980
Edition:
Description: USB 2.0 Host Controller, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM with E1000 support.
VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP
Usable: true
Actually, a USB stick is currently mounted (and usable): "mount | grep media" says
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/dev/sdb1 on /media/DISK_IMG type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=501,gid=500,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks)
Re: no USB device available
Posted: 2. May 2013, 14:23
by Perryg
Where do you get your version of VirtualBox?
Re: no USB device available
Posted: 2. May 2013, 20:24
by fbusse
Perryg wrote:Where do you get your version of VirtualBox?
from the Oracle source (as mentioned in the original post), i.e.
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http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian
Re: no USB device available
Posted: 9. Jun 2013, 09:14
by fbusse
still unsolved, but at least, after a hint from a friend, it seems that I'm stepping closer...
USB devices are smoothly
available when running VB as root: Obviously, as a normal user, I'm lacking necessary access rights.
After manually (temporarily)
adding to the fuse group, USB devices show up in "VBoxManage list usbhost", but still as "unavailable". (In "sudo VBoxManage list usbhost", the same device is marked "busy".)
Inserting a filter for a USB device has no visble effect.
Any ideas, anybody out there?
[German language
crossposting]
Re: no USB device available
Posted: 28. May 2016, 17:44
by mbair
And in addition the being a member of vboxusers group, you will need the udev rule /etc/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules that makes usb devices available to vboxusers. This set of rules should have been installed by the VirtualBox installer.