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mqduck
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 Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:39 am Post subject: VirtualBox and USB |
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I followed the instructions at on wiki.gentoo.org for setting up VirtualBox and it's mostly working fine, except it's not recognizing USB devices. Some poking around on Google lead me to believe that a directory called /dev/vboxusb/ should exist. But it doesn't. I can't even figure out what piece of software is supposed to get it there, so I'm kind of at a loss. All the kernel modules are loaded (vboxnetadp, vboxnetflt and vboxdrvl; I even tried loading vboxpci for the hell of it). Any advice?
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MacGyver031
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Hi
if you have check if | Code: | | emerge -pv virtualbox-extpack-oracle |
is emerged too.
if you have | Code: | | emerge virutalbox-bin |
then you do not require extpack.
BR.
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mqduck
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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I have app-emulation/virtualbox installed, and it pulled in virtualbox-extpack-oracle. Someone on IRC on #vbox told me that /dev/vboxusb/ is created by a udev rule, /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules "if you are using a standard installation". I don't have that file either.
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MacGyver031
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:37 am Post subject: |
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What is your virtualbox-version?
I have two boxes which create /dev/vboxusb without udev-rules.
You have inserted vboxdrv module?? What does dmesg show?
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[14264.773912] vboxdrv: Found 2 processor cores.
[14264.774044] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x1f8 offMax=0x1a55
[14264.774097] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
[14264.774099] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 4.1.22 (interface 0x00190000).
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BillWho
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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| mqduck wrote: | | Some poking around on Google lead me to believe that a directory called /dev/vboxusb/ should exist. |
I encountered a strange situation installing virtualbox-bin on my laptop. I had errors when udev started related to virtualbox and mknod.
I checked the /lib64/udev/rules.d/10-virtualbox.rules file and it was different than the one on my desktop installation.
The laptop's rule had RUN="%UDEVDIR%/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh and the desktop's rule has RUN="/lib/udev/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh.
So I modified all the laptop's rules to /lib/udev and, ran | Code: | | udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=usb |
then it worked fine 
I have no explanation for the discrepancies though 
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mqduck
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Success! So it turns out 10-vboxdrv.rules lives in /lib64, not /etc. Modifying it like BillWho did to point to the absolute directory, instead of to the I guess undefined %UDEVDIR%, fixed the problem. Thanks, guys.
Any idea where %UDEVDIR% should be defined? Perhaps a bug should be filed?
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