Re: VirtualBox problems

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On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:42 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:11 -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> >> Try adding
> >>
> >> none /sys/bus/usb/drivers      usbfs      devgid=509,devmode=664  0 0
> >>
> >> to /etc/fstab, where devgid is a group allowed to access the usb
> >> devices
> >> (e.g., usbusers), which vboxusers is part of.
> > 
> > I have a 'usb' group and a 'vboxusers' group. I set the above fstab line
> > using the vboxusers GID, but it didn't make any difference. Then I tried
> > the usb GID and that didn't work either.
> > 
> > I ran "VBoxManage list usbhost" with the Bluetooth dongle connected and
> > got the following:
> > 
> > UUID:               b431984b-e53d-462a-85b2-d037c3fd361a
> > VendorId:           0x0a5c (0A5C)
> > ProductId:          0x2111 (2111)
> > Revision:           1.0 (0100)
> > Manufacturer:       Broadcom Corp
> > Product:            ANYCOM Bluetooth USB-250 UHE
> > Address:            /proc/bus/usb/003/032
> > Current State:      Unavailable
> > 
> > This is exactly the same whether or not VBox is running or the VM is
> > actually running.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> What does "ls -l /proc/bus/usb/003/032" give you for permissions?

root,root 0644

>  I
> also suspect that the line in /etc/fstab is not going to affect
> anything until a new initrd is built, and may not help then. The USB
> file system is mounted in the initrd. (This is why is does not show
> up when running mount, but does show up when running "cat
> /proc/mounts".)
> 
> You could try something like:
> 
> mount -o remount,devgid=515,devmode=664 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs

# mount -o remount,devgid=505,devmode=664 -t none /proc/bus/usb usbfs
mount: mount point usbfs does not exist

(which is hardly surprising ...)

> I have not tried it, as I use a udev rule to set the permissions on
> a specific device instead ofall USB devices.

I'll poke around in the udev stuff.

poc

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