Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:08 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
> Beware VirtualBox and USB access. It's flaky at best. I tried using
> an
> XP guest in VirtualBox to access an iTouch device and it "kinda"
> worked
> but would often throw usb errors which would stop my sync between
> iTunes
> and the iTouch.
>
I second that. Although I like VBox (for a while there it would run on
the latest kernels when VMware wouldn't) I've never got it to work with
my iPod, Palm or Nokia E65. I enable the appropriate USB paths, but the
devices simply don't appear in the virtual XP machine.
poc
I had that same issue for awhile until I added the line:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=503,devmode=664 0 0
to my /etc/fstab file and then made sure my username was in the group
#503. Once I did that and bounced the box I could at least "see" the
USB devices. After that flakiness lived on but otherwise....
Kevin