VirtualBox question

rob33n · 11-25-2007, 05:54 AM

I'm using VirtualBox and I cant use usb ports. when I plug my usb hdd nothing happened.
and I downloaded some music files with limewire in Windows XP on VB. I want to copy or move them all in my home directory. How can I do that?

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 11-25-2007, 05:13 PM

One way would be to use Samba.

rob33n · 11-25-2007, 08:36 PM

hmm, I got that I think

thanks for advice.
I found some tutorials about sharing. thanks.

pliqui · 11-27-2007, 01:52 AM

And what happened if is a USB Printer?

rob33n · 11-27-2007, 05:54 AM

I found this.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_HOWTOS
really helpful documentation.

pliqui · 11-27-2007, 09:12 PM

Well. i was kinda desperate this morning cuz i need to print my grade thesis for today, i was working with xp and office 2007 cuz my partner and me use groove to work on it.

And after searching a lot of inet i was sloppy, tired + flu and then voila (at 6:00 am lol)

Code:

pliqui@debian:~$ su
Password: 
debian:/home/pliqui# VirtualBox &

And boom ! got full acces to usb devices. I do not recommend it, because root should be for command line and for maintenance and administrating the system. But i was in a hurry.

Now doing a little thinking, try adding your user to the virtualbox group, it's called vboxusers... i will kill myself if that works lol

rob33n · 11-28-2007, 04:05 PM

when I was root, there is no OS in Vbox.
as you see in the picture: http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4193/vboxrootcw9.png

pliqui · 11-28-2007, 07:25 PM

You need to add the OS again, just simply follow this instructions

1.- Click New
2.- Choose a name and the OS type
3.- Get your memory size
4.- When you are in the Virtual Disk windows, choose existing instead of new, the click add and go to you user (not the root) virtual box folder and select the .vdi. By default Virtual box store the drive inside that folder, but you can place it in any folder.

in my case

Code:

debian:~# ls -lA /home/pliqui/.VirtualBox/
total 7524744
-rw-r--r-- 1 pliqui pliqui       1091 2007-11-26 00:39 compreg.dat
drwxr-xr-x 3 pliqui pliqui       4096 2007-11-26 04:03 Machines
-rw------- 1 pliqui pliqui       1278 2007-11-26 13:16 VirtualBox.xml
-rwxr--r-- 1 pliqui pliqui 7706067456 2007-11-28 21:00 Windows Xp Sp2.vdi
-rw-r--r-- 1 pliqui pliqui      15355 2007-11-26 00:39 xpti.dat

then Start Virtual Box normally.

rob33n · 11-28-2007, 08:29 PM

oh, sorry.
my fault. I didnt think existing one. thanks.

phantom_cyph · 11-28-2007, 10:34 PM

You can also set up a shared folder.

Select your virtual computer, click on General to your right.

Open "Shared folders".

On the right, press the "new" button, select what folder you want to be shared and name it "shared" (or whatever)

Start your virtual computer.

Go to Devices->Mount Vbox Additions (something like that)

In XP, go to my computer, and double-click the cd drive. It will take you through setup.

Then, open command prompt and enter:

Quote:

net use x: \\vboxsvr\shared

It should say "command completed successfully"

Then, you can copy files and folders in and out of your shared folder at any time and XP will see them (whether on or off).

rob33n · 11-29-2007, 04:27 PM

I found something and it is very easy. Maybe I didnt see this before.
just enable usb. and start your system on virtual box.
and do it things like picture: http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/3553/usbsi1.png

My usb is kingston. when I press left button on mouse, this is ok. I can use usb and I can use my external harddrive

well, we dont need to be root!

and I try your advice phantom_cyph and it is also working for me. thanks.

phantom_cyph · 11-29-2007, 07:14 PM

No problem. Glad to help :-D

pliqui · 11-29-2007, 08:29 PM

Did you enabled the USB with or without filters?

rob33n · 11-30-2007, 12:48 AM

there is no filter. I just enabled it.

randomx · 07-26-2009, 07:54 PM

Distro: debian lenny
kernel: 2.6.26-2-686
VirtualBox: 3.0 (PUEL version)

It's 2009.

I fiddled so much with this, going from forum to forum, and finally got it solved. I just put all posts together and this is the final result; at least it worked for me. I don't wish anybody to go through that hassle so here it is. Enjoy.

1. Make a "usersusb" group (or whatever suits you) and put yourself there
groupadd usersusb
usermod -a -G usersusb <username> #useradd -G usbusers <username>

2. Edit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
add these lines a little before the do_start()
#
# Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
#
mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
domount usbfs /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

3. Change around line 37 /etc/udev/rules.d/91-permissions.rules for Lenny. Make look like this:
# usbfs-like devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", MODE="0664"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="usersusb", MODE="0664"

4. Edit /etc/fstab to include:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1002,devmode=664 0 0
#devgid --> is 1002--> grep usersusb /etc/group
#output: usersusb:x:1002:<username>

5. Create a filter in the USB devices list in sun vbox.
(plug in your device, add the filter, Ok, Exit application)

6. Reboot, start virtualbox, plug in your device. Your guest os should be able to see it.

7. from the host's console:
$VBoxManage list usbhost

UUID: 222222-1111-422f-b57e-b9c43dbce64d
VendorId: 0x01da (01DA)
ProductId: 0x0110 (0110)
Revision: 1.0 (0100)
Manufacturer: Sony
Product: DVD Cam-MassStorage
SerialNumber: 1234D11111111
Address: /proc/bus/usb/005/005
Current State: Captured

#now it says "Captured" whereas before all devices would say "Unavailable" and grayed out from the vbox guest os.

Side effect: /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon/ may be gone
To fix it, just do:
mount -t debugfs none_debugs /sys/kernel/debug
modprobe usbmon