There was no reply to my query (see below) and I did not re-question the issue because I did a re-installation of 4.0.6 and suddenly the USB devices worked again and the /dev/vboxusb directory had subdirectories.
However, today there has been a kernel upgrade in opensuse 11.4, so it forced a "/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup". But now USB devices are all gone again and the /dev/vboxusb directory has no subdirectories anymore. What exactly is going on? Apparently it could work, but somewhere there is domething rotten. Please give advice on how to get USB working again. (opensuse 11.4 host) Regards, Charles Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:59:07 +0200 From: Charles Stroom <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VBox-users] Trouble with 4.06 and USB Sorry, but this is not working. I followed the procedure described below, but although 4 usb devices are visible, only the first is accessible and the other 3 are greyed out. I looked at the /dev/vboxusb directory before I made the changes: fiume:/etc/init.d # ll /dev/vboxusb total 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 60 Apr 28 00:30 001 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 60 Apr 28 00:30 005 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 60 Apr 28 00:30 006 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 60 Apr 28 00:30 007 After I did the change to /etc/init.d/vboxdrv and started it up, the /dev/vboxusb directory is empty: fiume:/etc/init.d # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start Starting VirtualBox kernel modules done fiume:/etc/init.d # ll -d /dev/vboxusb drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 40 Apr 28 00:38 /dev/vboxusb fiume:/etc/init.d # ll /dev/vboxusb total 0 No sub-directories anymore! I remembered an old issue with the same symptoms (only 1 USB accesible), and changed the MODE="0600" into MODE:="0600" in the 10-vboxdrv.rules, but this time it did not help either. (Is that mode correct? It used to be 0664, from my old notes of 1 year ago.) Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Charles On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:44:25 +0200 Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 22 April 2011 19:44:26 Boris wrote: > > Thank you for your idea! I already did reboot the whole box but also > > restartetd vboxdrv - with no success.... > > There are two USB-related issues in VBox 4.0.6 (Linux hosts only). It > is now mandatory to be member of the vboxusers group to access USB > devices. And there is a bug in the startup script > (/etc/init.d/vboxdrv). That script creates /dev/vboxusb if that > directory does not exist yet. Unfortunately it uses wrong > permissions: 640 is incorrect for the directory, 750 is correct. > Search for 640 and replace it by 750. Then remove that directory and > do > > sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start > > VirtualBox should now be able to access the USB devices again. > > Kind regards, > > Frank > -- > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert > Werkstrasse 24 Staff Engineer, VirtualBox > 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] > > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der > Ven -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community -- Charles Stroom email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
