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It's a script you download and run. It installs VirtualBox, makes and installs the modules, creates the vboxusers group (you have to add yourself), no trouble at all.
Right click on which one you want, 32 bit or 64 bit, and select,
"Save Linked Content As", and save it to your hard drive. Once done,
type, sh nameoffile.run
and you are off to the races.
Last edited by cwizardone; 10-15-2009 at 04:43 PM.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,094
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by cwwilson721
OK..got the filters supposedly setup, but the guest (XP32) doesn't see ANY usb devices...
What am I doing wrong?
In /opt/VirtualBox/
you will find a User's manual in the form of a .pdf file.
The section on setting up USB access starts around page 23, but you might want to skip ahead to the troubling shooting section on page 152.
Good Luck.
Last edited by cwizardone; 10-15-2009 at 06:12 PM.
Have you installed the Guest Additions, it's an option in the Machine menu? That might help, I haven't got round to trying USB with my virtual XP Pro yet.
to your /etc/fstab. The devgid is the group ID for the vboxusers group. Then you won't have to run as root.
You might also have to add this:
Code:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0
As well, so that /etc/rc.d/rc.S mounts it correctly. The previous line, "breaks" the mount of /proc/bus/usb in /etc/rc.d/rc.S, or at least it did in Slack 12.2.
to your /etc/fstab. The devgid is the group ID for the vboxusers group.
That is the standard advice but I think it may break other USB usage. Please correct me if I'm wrong; I reason as follows. Slackware has the plugdev group for USB devices; users in the vboxusers group are not the only users of USB file systems. If that's right a safer configuration is to leave the fstab line with devgid=<plugdev GID> and make sure the VitualBox user is in group plugdev.
EDIT:
Anyone choosing to use the vboxusers group for devgid should check the number of that group in /etc/group rather than use 102. AFAIK the VirtualBox installation procedure chooses the first free GID above 100. If 102 is already in use, vboxusers will be created with a different GID.
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