Re: [PLUG] Virtual Box will not recognize my USB printer (

[Scott Budihas <budihas@gmail.com>]

I am running Ubuntu 10.10 host, Win 7 guest and VBox 4. (All 64bit) I 
installed VBox from the Oracle repo and then installed the extensions 
pack manually. Guest additions installed. I had no problem printing to 
my USB-connected HP inkjet in Win 7. No USB filters defined.

If you run VBox as root does that help? Then you have a permissions 
problem. Are you in the vboxusers group?

Was the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules installed?





On 01/13/2011 07:22 PM, Steve Slaughter wrote:
>      >Message: 4
>      >Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:19:33 -0500
>      >From: Scott Budihas <budihas@gmail.com <mailto:budihas@gmail.com>>
>      >Subject: Re: [PLUG] Virtual Box will not recognize my USB printer
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>      >Did you tell Vbox to take control of the usb device from the host?
>     There is
>      >a menu where you can select the device to activate it for use in
>     the guest.
>      >On my setup the menu gets hidden at the top of the guest window.
>      >On Jan 13, 2011 10:49 AM, "Steve Slaughter"
>     <steve2slaughter@gmail.com <mailto:steve2slaughter@gmail.com>>
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> Scott, I tried to transfer control of the USB device from the host to
> the guest using the menu
> you described above, but all the devices listed in the menu are colored
> black and can not be selected.
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>      >Are you running VBox 4 as downloaded from virtualbox.org
>     <http://virtualbox.org>? You'll need
>      >the extension pack (which, IMO, is where Oracle intends to start
>      >monetizing VBox, but I digress). It's available from their site.
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>      >Thanks and best regards,
>      >Chris Nehren
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> Yes, Chris I'm running VBox 4 and I have installed the extension pack.
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