On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 15:29 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > The device appears but is grayed out and not selectable. On removing the > > device, it no longer appears. I also see my external USB hard drive, > > which has no associated filter and is of course (correctly) also grayed > > out and not selectable. > > > > I'm leaning towards some mysterious permissions problem as being at the > > root of this, but the help docs for VBox are not very helpful. > > > > poc > > > Yes, this is a permission problem. The filter does not change the > permission of the device, so if it can not be accessed by your user, > or by the vboxusers group, it will show as grayed out. As a quick > and dirty test, change the ownership and permission of the > /proc/bus/usb/<bus>/<device> to match your user and vboxusers group. > > chown poc:vboxusers /proc/bus/usb/003/032 > chmod 664 /proc/bus/usb/003/032 That worked. OK, it's a good starting point to investigate, thanks. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
