Re: [Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox

[Philipp Hübner <debalance@arcor.de>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Hey,

Javier Vasquez schrieb:
> Yes I did.  I can see in the devices tab of virtualbox the usb
> devices, but they're always grayed...  I also included filters
> (automatically picked BTW by virtualbox), but that doesn't help a
> thing.


I think the problem are the rights within /proc/bus/usb/ or similar.
When I wanted to use USB in the guest, I had to 'chown -R a+rw/ the
folder to get it working.
There might be a better way to get this done, because I think this might
be a security risk, but at least it worked for me.

Regards,
Philipp

PS: I found this information on the web some time ago.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEUEARECAAYFAkihQFEACgkQFhl05MJZ4OipHQCeJhxL0jm8g7RGNPCcB8vWhTeQ
qloAmOzmszorw4Wf32BiYZK7BOiQTmA=
=dD6v
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----