Hugo Espresati Serrano wrote: > Stevens escribió: > >> On Monday 03 September 2007 20:40, Hans Linux wrote: >> >> >>> You r right! I reinstalled virtualbox using its binary and having >>> windows xp running as guest now. Great software, much better than vmware >>> which is not stable and slow >>> >>> one thing remain is USB. >>> >>> >> I opted to not recompile the kernel and jump through all the hoops. >> When I plug in a USB device, usually a flash drive, KDE sees it but >> VirtualBox doesn't. I simply share the device with Samba and voila! >> VirtualBox now has access to it. >> >> That solution works for me but might irritate the crap out of others >> on this list, so YMMV. >> >> Fred >> >> > Just edit your fstab. Add *"#" *to your usb line, like this: > > #usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs > noauto 0 0 > > Then add this line: > > usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=666 0 0 > > Save, exit and restart your pc! ;-) > > Thanks for the tip, but... a small question... "restart"? "pc"?
Since this is linux, and not that "pc" OS we all know so well, shouldn't it be enough to type: mount -oremount /proc/bus/usb ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
