user is added to vbox group and in application for virtual machine I set USB enabled. I could choose the USB device, I did it for printer and run VM (Win XP).
Everything looks well but when I want to connect the USB device by checkbox, it is alway grey and disactivated.
I tried to unmount in linux the device and connect in VM but no success.
Really I have no idea how to see the printer in VM Win XP.
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have installed Virtualbox 2.0.2 (not OSE) and I followed the install
> instructions. So now I have modified fstab:
>
> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
> none /proc/bus/usb usbfs
> auto,busgid=110,busmode=0775,devgid=110,devmode=0666 0 0
>
> user is added to vbox group and in application for virtual machine I
> set USB enabled. I could choose the USB device, I did it for printer and
> run VM (Win XP).
>
> Everything looks well but when I want to connect the USB device by
> checkbox, it is alway grey and disactivated.
>
> I tried to unmount in linux the device and connect in VM but no
> success.
>
> Really I have no idea how to see the printer in VM Win XP.
>
> Please help me to solve this problem.
I hope you get a good answer to the USB question - I can never tell whether
I’m going to have USB connectivity in virtual XP or not. One time it
works, next it does as you describe. I can’t see any reason for the
discrepancy, but there it is.
My workaround for this is to use the host printer via a peer share. I had
some grief getting permissions set up right, but that works on both the
laptop and the desktops machines. It also solves some weird problems with
the VM stealing the USB resource from the host and having to either
unplug/plug the printer or turn it off and on to get access back to Linux.
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have installed Virtualbox 2.0.2 (not OSE) and I followed the install
> instructions. So now I have modified fstab:
>
> usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
> none /proc/bus/usb usbfs
> auto,busgid=110,busmode=0775,devgid=110,devmode=0666 0 0
>
> user is added to vbox group and in application for virtual machine I
> set USB enabled. I could choose the USB device, I did it for printer and
> run VM (Win XP).
>
> Everything looks well but when I want to connect the USB device by
> checkbox, it is alway grey and disactivated.
>
> I tried to unmount in linux the device and connect in VM but no
> success.
>
> Really I have no idea how to see the printer in VM Win XP.
>
> Please help me to solve this problem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Martin
>
>
I have a Xerox Phaser hooked up to my Windows XP in the sun 2.0.2 version of
Virtual Box. I have the following entry for fstab:
I got that from the manual. I’m running Vbox on openSUSE 11.0. I stumbled
for a while, tried the original fstab entry you have but I got symtoms like
you. I start Vbox, go to settings–> usb. There I see the printer. then I
start XP.
Did you remember to do a mount usbfs as root before starting Vbox? if you
didn’t you will probably see the following message:
Could not load the Host USB Proxy Service (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND). The service
might be not installed on the host computer.
The important thing is the mount command. Again its probably a good idea to
download the manual. Thats where I found this stuff when I started.
See if this helps
I changed the line in fstab as you wrote and the result is the same. I can easily check in option USB, when I want to add next USB device, I can but all of them are inaccessible. So I can add the device to list but after XP running the device is always grey and not possible to choose it >:(
>
> The problem is that I get the same results like Will - unexpected
> connections - sometime is printer available, sometime not. It is really
> strengh…:\
I have 4 systems here - laptops for myself and the wife, an old Dell for a
file/print server, and my toy (AMD 64X2 3800). That gives me 4 systems to
check against one another. All 4 use identical settings so only the native
hardware differs. 3 give random effects with USB and my laptop has never
worked. The setup screen sees all available USB devices most of the time
but I had to disallow the wireless receiver for the mouse and that killed
everything. We need to import a witch doctor and give him with a supply of
chickens to sacrifice! :;