Virtual Box USB Access

Ordinary12 · 02-29-2008, 10:45 AM

Can someone please tell me which version of Virtual Box comes with usb access? I thought it was the binary version but after I I put the group ID number for usbfs into the Virtual Box users group I'm still unable to mount a usb device in the guest operating system. It shows the device in the menu but its grayed out.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 02-29-2008, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ordinary12

Can someone please tell me which version of Virtual Box comes with usb access? I thought it was the binary version but after I I put the group ID number for usbfs into the Virtual Box users group I'm still unable to mount a usb device in the guest operating system. It shows the device in the menu but its grayed out.

See here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions

taylorkh · 03-01-2008, 08:00 AM

I have seen there too. And downloaded the "closed" version and USB does NOT work in Ubuntu 7.10 with a Windoze XP guest.

Ken

p.s. It DOES work in VMWare. Parallels caused all manner of issues on my system. Sort of points to the way I need to go.