Re: [Hampshire] VirtualBox USB passthrough

Hi Steve,

I did this a while back so I hope I can remember this right but try
adding a new group, like usb, then add your user to that group.

usb:x:504:kwhitlock

Then in your fstab add the following line, where devid is the group id
above ^

none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=504,devmode=664 0 0


then do a mount -a, if that doesn't work try rebooting.


Regards,
Keir

Steve Kirk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems getting an IrDA/USB bridge device passed through
> into VirtualBox. I can create a filter for it without any problems, but
> the device is always unavailable to the guest machine.
>
> I have the Sun package with USB support installed on CentOS 5.2.
>
> The device is seen as a SigmaTel IrDA/USB bridge by Linux.
>
> dmesg gives:
>
> usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
> usb 4-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
> usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>
> lsusb:
>
> Bus 004 Device 007: ID 066f:4200 SigmaTel, Inc. STIr4200 IrDA Bridge
>
> Any ideas? I really don't want to go back to dual booting with Windows
> after 3 years.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>