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Hello

I've been working with VB "closed-source" edition a while and everything was working fine. Now I got a new PC and migrated everything from old to new system - incl. ".VirtualBox" folder and vdi files.
My virtual machine was created on the old PC (actually a notebook) with VB 1.52 and used with VB 1.54 and the last weeks even with VB 1.6.0 I used my USB key as well as some shared folders on it - without any problem.

However, on the new PC, a shuttle xpc, I had trouble with shared folders. Although being defined, they were not accessible as there was no VBOXSVR available (that's what the error message told). Yesterday I managed to fix this problem somehow by uninstalling und reinstalling the guest-additions. But later in the afternoon, after a reboot of the host, everything was gone. By looking closer on this, I also found out that USB support is not there (don't know if it was there before). Interestingly, putative USB devices are showing up in the USB devices menu. But the names are grey and not clickable.

I suspect that something is wrong with the guest additions, that they somehow are not properly running. Or it is the communication between host and guest, maybe some problem with rights? I did copy everything with rdiff-backup, keeping rights, and I did not forget to include myself to the vboxusers group...

Does anybody have any idea what could be the reason?

Here are the basic informations about my system:
opensuse 10.3
2.6.22.18-190-bigsmp
KDE 3.57

The only difference to my notebook system is the hardware, especially the Shuttle PN20 (Realtek 8187) WLAN USB adapter on the PC. Could this be the reason?

thank you very much

Marco

OK, USB issue is solved - the entry in the fstab was not correct.

Anyway, shared folders still do not work. I really don't understand the problem, yesterday it was working fine...

Now I tried with VB 1.6.2 - no change, still no access to \\VBOXSRV

Just in case, somebody reads this...

Hi there,
I am having the same problem as you with USB devices showing but grayed out and unusable. What exactly did you do to correct it?
Thanks a bunch.

Hi

Just as written in the VirtualBox FAQ I did add the following line to /etc/fstab: with XXX being the gid of the group vboxusers ("grep vboxusers /etc/group") - on my system it is 1000.