On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 22:14 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 08/18/2009 07:46 PM, L wrote: > > hope some one offer a fix? > > > > > > This is due to a legacy usbfs system in use by Fedora. No other > distribution uses usbfs anymore. VirtualBox is coded to use legacy > first, then libusb. > > In order to get around having to add an entry in /etc/fstab, you can > remove the usbfs mounting in /etc/rc.sysinit and reboot. This will allow > VBox to use libusb. > > I've brought it up on the list before and the knee-jerk response was > that VBox is broken -- it's "proprietary" (which is wrong, only the RDP > piece is) and not kvm/qemu/xen (Fedora/Red Hat products).
Unfortunately it's exactly the USB-supporting part of VBox that's proprietary. It would help the argument to find some other app for which libusb is clearly superior to usbfs. One such is pilot-link. There are probably others. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
