Re: Virtual Box

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:08 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
>   
>> Beware VirtualBox and USB access.  It's flaky at best.  I tried using
>> an
>> XP guest in VirtualBox to access an iTouch device and it "kinda"
>> worked
>> but would often throw usb errors which would stop my sync between
>> iTunes
>> and the iTouch.
>>     
>
> I second that. Although I like VBox (for a while there it would run on
> the latest kernels when VMware wouldn't) I've never got it to work with
> my iPod, Palm or Nokia E65. I enable the appropriate USB paths, but the
> devices simply don't appear in the virtual XP machine.
>
> poc
>
>   
I had that same issue for awhile until I added the line:

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=503,devmode=664 0 0

 to my /etc/fstab file and then made sure my username was in the group
#503.  Once I did that and bounced the box I could at least "see" the
USB devices.  After that flakiness lived on but otherwise....


Kevin

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