virtualbox on Suse 11 64

English Hardware
#1

I have installed Virtual box 2.02 on Suse 11 64 and cannot get it to recognize usb. I used the non free 64 bit version (rpm) and other than that it appears to work OK. I modified the fstab file as recommended by Virtualbox and also the boot.local file as recommended here on the forum but neither fixed the problem and in fact modifying the boot.local prevented my usb memory stick from automounting. Anyone have any ideas? My etc/fstab entry looks like:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=114,busmode=0775,devgid=114,devmode=0664 0 0

all on one line of course.

Thanks for the help

#2

tvice wrote:
> I have installed Virtual box 2.02 on Suse 11 64 and cannot get it to
> recognize usb. I used the non free 64 bit version (rpm) and other than
> that it appears to work OK. I modified the fstab file as recommended by
> Virtualbox and also the boot.local file as recommended here on the forum
> but neither fixed the problem and in fact modifying the boot.local
> prevented my usb memory stick from automounting. Anyone have any ideas?
> My etc/fstab entry looks like:
> none /proc/bus/usb usbfs
> auto,busgid=114,busmode=0775,devgid=114,devmode=0664 0 0

I have Windows XP as a guest with openSUSE 11.0 as host running the
64-bit VirtualBox 2.0.2. Any device for which I create a filter is
seen by Windows. In particular, I use a scanner that does not have a
sane backend under Linux. My line from /etc/fstab is

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs
auto,busgid=109,busmode=0775,devgid=109,devmode=0664 0 0

It matches yours except for busgid and devgid. Note - 109 is the group
number for vboxusers.

Larry

#3

Hi tvice

Add this line in the /etc/init.d/vboxdrv script in the start function

Code:
start()
{
mount usbfs
begin_msg “Starting VirtualBox kernel module”

Works here fine (OpenSuSE 11 64bit, Virtualbox 2.02)

Klaus