On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 14:42 +0200, Michael Thayer wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 05:59 +0200, Angelo GIRARDI wrote: > > On 06/08/11 04:23, john francis lee wrote: > > > I rebooted the host... the complaint below went away, bu I was still > > > unable to install a 'filter' for my flash drive. > > > > > > I removed the flash drive, restarted the xp guest, inserted the flash > > > drive... it was mounted in linux, and was accessible under xp as well. > > > > > > I don't know what will happen when I save an image of the guest when I > > > shut it down... we'll see. > > > > > > On 08/06/2011 12:20:46 AM, john francis lee wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I am running vbox 4.0.12 on ubuntu 10.4 and I get 'Vbox is not > > >> currently allowed to access usb devices' when I open the settings > > >> window for my xp guest. > > >> > > >> I have installed the guest additions and the extension package and I > > >> have made myself a member of vboxusers... what else do I need to do? > > >> > > >> Thanks. > > > > > > You should add the USB drivers in your filter USB settings for your > > guest system before running it. > > Regarding USB devices not being available immediately after > installation, but only on re-boot I assume that this code in the > installer is failing on your system: > [ > http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/install.sh#L444 > ].
Sorry, for the Debian package [ http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/debian/postinst.in#L44 ]. It would probably help if we created the vboxusers group before trying to create the USB device nodes which are supposed to be owned by it. Regards, Michael -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
