On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay. Then got to the Settings for your VM in VirtualBox and go to the usb
> tab and make sure that Enable USB Controller is checked. If that is the
> case
> then you should be able to control usb devices from the running VM by
> checking then either on the bottom right of the Status bar or by Devices on
> the top menu, USB Devices. Once checked they will be available in your
> guest
> OS and not in the host OS. The exception to this would be something that
> would not show because you do not have a Linux driver for the host so it
> can't be made available in the guest. I can't think of an example of this
> because Linux has so many drivers now, but theoretically it is possible.
>
> Roy
>
> Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
> Location: Canada
>
>
> Roy,
>
Yea, that's the way it used to go. Now, however, nothing is presented in
the devices drop down. The linux distro is the same and everything is the
same except the vm version.
Jim
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