[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#672351: virtualbox: USB support not working because user is not added to group vboxusers

Marco Stronati marco.stronati at gmail.com
Thu May 10 07:08:42 UTC 2012


Package: virtualbox
Version: 4.1.14-dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
when I try to add an usb device to a virtual machine, le list of devices available is empty.
Adding the current user to the group vboxusers fixed the problem and now I can access my host devices.

Regards,
Marco


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox depends on:
ii  adduser          3.113+nmu1
ii  libc6            2.13-32
ii  libcurl3         7.25.0-1
ii  libgcc1          1:4.7.0-7
ii  libgsoap2        2.8.7-1
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.49-1
ii  libpython2.7     2.7.3~rc2-2.1
ii  libsdl1.2debian  1.2.15-3
ii  libssl1.0.0      1.0.1b-1
ii  libstdc++6       4.7.0-7
ii  libvncserver0    0.9.9+dfsg-1
ii  libx11-6         2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  libxcursor1      1:1.1.13-1
ii  libxext6         2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxml2          2.7.8.dfsg-9
ii  libxmu6          2:1.1.1-1
ii  libxt6           1:1.1.3-1
ii  python           2.7.2-10
ii  python-central   0.6.17
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.7.dfsg-1

Versions of packages virtualbox recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  8.0.2-2
ii  libqt4-opengl             4:4.8.1-1
ii  libqtcore4                4:4.8.1-1
ii  libqtgui4                 4:4.8.1-1
ii  virtualbox-dkms           4.1.14-dfsg-1
ii  virtualbox-qt             4.1.14-dfsg-1

Versions of packages virtualbox suggests:
ii  vde2                            <none>
ii  virtualbox-guest-additions-iso  4.1.14-1

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