[CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS

Wed Dec 9 20:34:55 UTC 2009
JS <jses27 at gmail.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Lars Hecking
> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:24 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] VirtualBox and CentOS
> 
> 
>  I recently doownloaded and installed the latest RHEL5 rpm from the
> VirtualBox
>  web site. While it generally works very well, I have been unable to get
> USB
>  access to work on the guest.
> 
>  This seems to be a very common problem. Many references to it turn up in
> a
>  web search, but I have not found a solution that works on CentOS 5. I got
> no
>  response on the vbox-users mailing list either. Can anyone here help?
> 
>  Among the things I tried were various /sys and /proc/bus/usb related
> fstab
>  and rc.sysinit changes. Drew a total blank on this one ...
---
Give this a try but I would advise not using on a production machine.

# For VirtualBox
# none   /sys/bus/usb/drivers   usbfs   devgid=501,devmode=664   0   0

Also make sure the User is in the VBox Users Group.

John