Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:24:24 -0400, H.S. wrote: (...) > I am trying to access a USB device from with the guest OS, XP, after > connecting it to a USB port on the machine. > > I have listed the USB device in the VBox's USB settings and checked it > to make it available to the guest OS. (...) Be

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Good morning :) On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:10:26 +0200, H.S. wrote: On 08/05/2012 07:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 19:16 -0400, H.S. wrote: The Tomtom device makes itself a network device, not sure why. Ok. Did you test if this software runs on wine, before you used VBox?

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread H.S.
On 08/05/2012 07:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 19:16 -0400, H.S. wrote: >> >> The Tomtom device makes itself a network device, not sure why. > > Ok. Did you test if this software runs on wine, before you used VBox? No. How do I do that? I just now installed wine. Now, the

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 19:16 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 08/05/2012 07:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 18:33 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Alright, just restarted the whole machine. What is happening now is the > >> following (or so it seems to be from the log, pasted further below): > >>

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread H.S.
On 08/05/2012 07:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 18:33 -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Alright, just restarted the whole machine. What is happening now is the >> following (or so it seems to be from the log, pasted further below): >> 1. Usbcore sees teh device. >> 2. It "disconnects" it or

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 00:58 +0200, Siard wrote: > usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=666 0 0 It can't harm to test it. FWIW I don't have any USB entry in my fstab. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 18:33 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Alright, just restarted the whole machine. What is happening now is the > following (or so it seems to be from the log, pasted further below): > 1. Usbcore sees teh device. > 2. It "disconnects" it or "unmanages" it because? Looks like because > VBox

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread Siard
H.S. wrote: > I have a Debian Testing machine, fully update, using VirtualBox (VBox) > with Windows XP installed as a guest OS. > > I am trying to access a USB device from with the guest OS, XP, after > connecting it to a USB port on the machine. By default, this line below does not exist in /etc

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread H.S.
On 08/05/2012 06:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Sorry, I forgot to shorten the text and to reply to this. Because so > much is involved, the host and guest, a restart IMO is a good idea. > > Alright, just restarted the whole machine. What is happening now is the following (or so it seems to be

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 18:02 -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Otherwise, I might just restart the machine to reset it. Sorry, I forgot to shorten the text and to reply to this. Because so much is involved, the host and guest, a restart IMO is a good idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 18:02 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Got the extensions installed with the same number as my VBox. Earlier, I > had the 4.1.14 extension pack, now it is same as my VBox version: 4.1.18. On Arch I've got installed: virtualbox 4.1.18-4, virtualbox-modules 4.1.18-4 virtualbox-ext-oracle 4

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread H.S.
On 08/05/2012 05:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I'm using VBox + XP guest on Arch Linux, so the VBox versions might > differ. > > 1. I experienced that adding "virtualbox-ext-oracle" can improve USB > issues. Dunno if there's a Debian package available, if necessary. > http://aur.archlinux.org/p

Re: usb0 and making it available to guest OS

2012-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 17:24 -0400, H.S. wrote: > I have a Debian Testing machine, fully update, using VirtualBox (VBox) > with Windows XP installed as a guest OS. I'm using VBox + XP guest on Arch Linux, so the VBox versions might differ. 1. I experienced that adding "virtualbox-ext-oracle" can i