USB is enabled in VBox GUI but not in my VM
Posted: 8. Oct 2015, 17:20
Hi Experts,
I am trying to access a real USB memory stick plugged into my Ubuntu 14.04 host from within my Ubuntu 14.04 guest, using VBox OSE 5.0.0.
— I have installed the guest additions, and confirmed that folder sharing and screen resizing works.
— I have installed the extension pack, as shown in the attachment. Actually, I tried both of the 5.0.0 extension packs that I found in the download area, though they appear to be identical.
— I have added myself to the vboxusers group.
— After researching countless related issues in the VBox forum and the Ubuntu forum, I have installed several additional packages that others found were necessary.
— I rebooted my host after every step, above.
These steps all helped me make progress, but now I am stuck and looking for further advice. Here is my problem:
I can enable the USB controller in the VirtualBox GUI Settings, but it still says there are no devices. Here is the strange part: when I start the VM and use the Devices/USB menu therein, the enable check box appears checked, but it's greyed out. And of course, trying to add a filter for my device still says that no devices are available. See the attached screen shots.
I have tried with both USB 2.0 and 1.1, same result.
I have tried everything I can find in the VBox forum and Ubuntu forum, but evidently I am still missing something.
Someone said that you need to have an empty filter in order to get a device list, and though that sounded unlikely, I even tried that, to no avail.
Any other ideas? I'm fresh out of ideas.
I am trying to access a real USB memory stick plugged into my Ubuntu 14.04 host from within my Ubuntu 14.04 guest, using VBox OSE 5.0.0.
— I have installed the guest additions, and confirmed that folder sharing and screen resizing works.
— I have installed the extension pack, as shown in the attachment. Actually, I tried both of the 5.0.0 extension packs that I found in the download area, though they appear to be identical.
— I have added myself to the vboxusers group.
— After researching countless related issues in the VBox forum and the Ubuntu forum, I have installed several additional packages that others found were necessary.
— I rebooted my host after every step, above.
These steps all helped me make progress, but now I am stuck and looking for further advice. Here is my problem:
I can enable the USB controller in the VirtualBox GUI Settings, but it still says there are no devices. Here is the strange part: when I start the VM and use the Devices/USB menu therein, the enable check box appears checked, but it's greyed out. And of course, trying to add a filter for my device still says that no devices are available. See the attached screen shots.
I have tried with both USB 2.0 and 1.1, same result.
I have tried everything I can find in the VBox forum and Ubuntu forum, but evidently I am still missing something.
Someone said that you need to have an empty filter in order to get a device list, and though that sounded unlikely, I even tried that, to no avail.
Any other ideas? I'm fresh out of ideas.