Description of problem: The present Vbox extension installed is: Oracle VboxDTrace Extension Pack 5.1.8r111374 appears to be the correct one. For some reason I cant get a Vbox client to see a simple USB drive
Test procedure: Create a simple USB drive with the FAT32 format. On that drive copy one mp4 and one jpg file. Plugging the USB drive into the host you can mount it and see both files. Launch any Vbox client and attempt to connect that USB drive to the client. The USB settings in the client settings does not see the USB drive so I cannot add it to that client. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
(In reply to William Kenney from comment #1) > Test procedure: > > Create a simple USB drive with the FAT32 format. > On that drive copy one mp4 and one jpg file. > Plugging the USB drive into the host you can mount it and see both files. > Launch any Vbox client and attempt to connect that USB drive to the client. > The USB settings in the client settings does not see the USB drive so > I cannot add it to that client. > > Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I don't know, I've only incidentally used vbox tmb will know :-)
CC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => tmbSource RPM: (none) => virtualbox
I see that behaviour if I forget to add my user to the vboxusers group (on the host). After doing so and restarting the host and guest systems, I see a list of available devices in Devices - USB in the vbox top menubar. I can select a usb drive and mount it in the usual way. (I enable the appropriate USB controller in the VM Settings - USB. I've never had to set up filters.) Host (cauldron) $ uname -r 4.8.8-desktop-1.mga6 rpm -q virtualbox virtualbox-5.1.8-2.mga6 Guest (MGA-5-32) kernel 4.4.30-desktop and guest additions 5.1.2-10
CC: (none) => jim
I should have added my host is 64 bit
Sometimes I wish that we had a similar package just like get-skype called get-vboxusb or something similar. The license of the pack does tell you that you're not granted to package it, but it says nothing about packaging something that fetches that package and installs it the same time as you install Virtualbox to avoid this problem again. I guess it could be easily done with a fetch script using wget or curl, but I'm certainly no expert in making that.
CC: (none) => hamnisdude
resolved
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED