Hi,
Can someone suggest a reliable method to get USB devices working with
Windows guests on CentOS 5.4 hosts?
I have downloaded and installed VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.0_55467_rhel5-1.i386.rpm
from the VirtualBox web site, added the relevant uids to the vboxusers group,
enabled both USB controllers and changed /etc/rc.sysinit to
mount -n -t usbfs -o devgid=$(awk -F: '/^vboxusers:/{print $3}'
/etc/group),devmode=664 /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
This doesn't work. /proc/bus/usb permissions are unchanged, and the host
still grabs USB devices, e.g. memory sticks.
# ll -d /proc/bus/usb
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Dec 7 10:36 /proc/bus/usb/
# /proc/bus/usb
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 7 10:36 001/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 7 10:36 002/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 7 10:36 003/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 7 10:36 004/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 7 10:36 005/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 7 11:00 devices
#
I only started playing with VirtulBox last week, hoping to replace vmware,
and I can do pretty much everything required for setup automation, but the
USB issue is a killer.
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