On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/03/11 14:21, Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I have a flash disk which is detected as /dev/sdc >>> >>> I need to use it as a virtualbox device. >>> So I created a vmdk for the disk and registered it. >>> Furthermore, virtualbox requires that in order to use >>> the device, the device must belong to the group >>> vboxusers. >>> So I chmod'ed it to vboxusers. >> I'm recalling this from memory so I hope it's accurate, but... >> >> Why don't you use it as a USB device instead? >> >> Also, I'm not completely sure that the disk has to be owned by >> vboxusers. If you run virtualbox as yourself, and you're in the disks >> group, I think that is sufficient. > > I tried that! > It did not work. Have you had USB working in VB at any point or just not with this device? > As you can see, I am also in the disks group: > $ id jd > uid=1008(jd) gid=1008(jd) > groups=0(root),6(disk),12(mail),11(cdrom),19(floppy),1009(vboxusers),1008(jd) Strange. I know I was able to use a raw disk vmdk for my IPod without chmod'ing it. I would usually use the USB option in VB but the USB port of the Ipod seemed to be fried so I was left with FireWire. >>> But somehow magically, it reverts back to being >>> owned by the group disks. >> Do you mean when you unplug and re-plug the flash drive? This is due >> to udev so nothing really to do with selinux. > No! > It just magically reverts back to having gid of 6 (disks). No clue then... > I tried. When I click on the + icon on the right, > it says no devices available. Have you added a few empty USB filters to your VM? Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
