On 05/27/2011 10:37 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On 27/05/11 22:22, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/28/2011 10:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> I haven't touched my home directory where the VM is kept, so any light >>> on this would be welcome. >>> >> No info on your particular error. I don't see your issue on my Win2K, >> and Vista guest. However, USBs don't work in any of my guests. So, I'm >> not confident in the quality of Oracle's release for F15. >> >> FWIW, I've put up my query on their forum and looked to see if anyone >> posted about yours...nothing found. > > OK, thanks. I haven't got as far as trying the USB stuff as I can't even > run my VM, but if USB doesn't work it's no use to me. I only run VB when > I want to update my iPhone. > > poc > Make sure your user account is in the vboxusers group or USB won't work. This was a change in the 4.x series on VirtualBox. 1) as root or via sudo, edit /etc/group 2) locate the vboxusers line and add yourself after the last colon vboxusers:x:501:sdstern 3) save the file. 4) logout, login -- -- Steve -- 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