[PLUG] USB on VirtualBox on Slackware

[King Beowulf]

On 12/18/18 2:55 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> Running Win2K in VirtualBox on Slackware. I ran lsusb and saw that
> Slackware sees the foot pedal.
> After installing guest additions I plugged in my USB foot pedal, but
> VirtualBox sees no USB devices. in the USB settings for the virtual
> machine, Enable USB Controller, while checked, is grayed out. the radio
> button for USB1.1 is selected. But when I right click on the USB icon at
> the bottom of the VirtualBox window, it says, "No USB Devices
> Connected." I was able to create a USB Device Filter for the foot pedal,
> copying the information I have in my Win7 virtual machine running on my
> desktop. But that didn't help.
> 
> Is there something else I need to do to implement USB support in
> VirtualBox for Slackware? On Ubuntu I had to use the version from
> Oracle, not the open source version.
> 

Dick

Although we added the vboxusers group, I think wee forgot to add your
user to that group:

usermod -a -G vboxusers <user>

see also
https://docs.slackware.com/slackbook:users

here is a good troubleshooting guide:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=82639

-Ed

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