Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1872 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay C Vollmer wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2008, David C. Rankin wrote:
>
> > I can't solve your qmenu problem, but I bet virtualbox will work:
> >
> > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>
> Thanks David.
>
> I've switched to VirtualBox and and it has solved that problem.  The only 
> problem left is the USB support.  Is there a trick to getting a guest OS to 
> see USB devices on the host?

Yep, there's a trick:

For USB, for openSuSE in fstab add:

none  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs
auto,busgid=XXX,busmode=0775,devgid=XXX,devmode=0664  0  0

where XXX is the vboxuser gid from /etc/group.



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