Joep L. Blom wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Section 11.5.7 of the manual. It is also in the FAQs. >> >> One other thing - I hope what you mean by subscribed to the >> vboxusers group means you added your Linux user name to the Linux >> group vboxusers. >> >> Mikkel >> > Mikkel, > Thanks for your reply. Of course that's what it is and I had looked, > before I wrote my questions on that section - therefore adding the local > user (joep) to the vboxusers group. The rest of that section, as stated > explicitly is for older systems, I assume either older versions of > virtualbox or older OS-versions, both is not the case (new version of > Ubuntu, virtualbox version 3.5.04 r50677). herefore there is apparently > something other that's refusing the USB to the guest. > Other suggestion? > Joep > Well, there is what I consider a bug in the way VertualBox handles USB. If it find the older /proc/bus/usb with the usbfs mounted on it, it uses that instead of libusb to access USB devices. If it does not find it, then it uses the newer libusb to access USB devices. Because Ubuntu and Fedora both support both methods of access, it uses the "wrong" one. This is why remounting the usbfs as described in the manual, fixes the problem you are running into.
Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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