| Edmond Rodriguez on 13 Jan 2011 21:58:52 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Virtual Box will not recognize my USB printer ( |
I tried running VBox some time ago. I got my USB to work by changing permissions on the following, though I did not pay attention to the vboxusers group thing as shown below which sounds like a better way. I opened up permissions (recursively?) to /proc/bus/usb and /dev/vboxdrv which took a long time to figure out. Perhaps not the best way to get usb, but for starters it got me going. Of course,I was not worried about any open permissions or security issues on my own personal machine. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Scott Budihas <budihas@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> >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>> >> >wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> >> >> >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. >> >> -- >> >Thanks and best regards, >> >Chris Nehren >> >> Yes, Chris I'm running VBox 4 and I have installed the extension pack. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Computers have lots of memory but no imagination....yet. >> >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >> http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug