[SOLVED] virtualbox No USB

[frank392]

hi i'm having problems with vbox i can't  access the usb devices I have ad myself to the vbox group i have download the vbox from the web page
but i can see them like in shadow but i cant click on them please help

[menotu]

Hi frank392,

Have you add the USB device to the VM ?

Select your VM, click Settings > USB > make sure the controller is ticked and also you should be able to add your devices as well.

Hope I'm not teaching you to suck eggs 

[muungwana]

for licensing reasons, virtualbox in the repository does not support usb devices. You will have to install pclinuxos version from virtualbox website if you want it.

There is a hack somewhere on this forum that will allow you to use usb devices with the version in the repository. Never used the hack and have no idea where it.

[russell.eberhardt]

Assuming you have the version of VirtualBox from the Sun site installed:
Run VirtualBox but don't start the virtual machine (Windows or whatever).
Click on Settings (The gear wheel)
Click on USB
Ensure that the check boxes for Enable USB Controller and Enable USB 2.0 Controller are checked.

Hope that helps.

[frank392]

all that is done but is not working
I have virtualbox 3.1.6 and pclinux2010

[Animal]

Not that I am condoning running apps from outside the repos, but I have consistently run the Vbox package for PCLOS from the Vbox website with great success in the past.

I have not tried it with the latest release of PCLOS 2010 and have not checked since the release so there may not even be an updated package for PCLOS yet.

[johnmart]

I always had lots of trouble with usb devices until I stumbled on a forum comment that your pclos platform & your vbox system vie for mounting it. Once I grasped that concept I could manage usb's more easily.
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So, after you enable usb in your vbox/settings tab, start your vbox guest & plug in your usb. Your PCLOS device notifier will recognise it, but ignore that or esc it, & click devices in your guest system's vbox frame & you should see your recently plugged device, tick it & it should mount.

btw, this is with the Sun version, 3.1.6 v59338
HTH
John

[frank392]

Thank you very much to everyone, I fix it  i had to reinstall Pclinuxos 2010 so this time i install first the vbox ose from the repos then deleted and install the one from the vbox server the one mark for pclinux 2007 for some reaso now i do not have problems. before i install the one that was for all linux

thank you