On Wednesday 30 December 2009 08:39:47 Casey Bralla wrote:
You are probably using the "ose" version of VirtualBox, which does not
include USB support. The ose version is the fully GPL'd open source
system. In order to get USB support, you have to download the binary
version from VirtualBox.org. They have Debian packages, which I presume
will work in Ubuntu. Their download page shows you how to add the
VirtualBox repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Once there,
Ubuntu can automatically download and install it just like any other
package.
Thanks to both of you. This helps very much as I am using the Open Source
Edition. One last question, before I destroy everything, is this a smooth
upgrade in the sense that the closed source install will be able to access my
existing VMs and not break them?
When I upgraded from the open source to the closed source versions of
VirtualBox all of my VMs and configuration worked just fine afterward.
I'm running Intrepid. I believe that I just downloaded the .deb and
installed it with dpkg as I have no corresponding entry in
/etc/apt/sources.list. After that, it checks for updates itself when I
start it.