VirtualBox problems

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 13:23 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 
> > Slightly OT: My USB devices -- Nokia phone, Bluetooth dongle, Palm TX,
> > Ipod -- aren't recognized when I plug them in, despite having the
> > correct incantations in the VBox settings panel (i.e. I added filters
> > using "Get filter from device"). I also have the correct vboxusers
> > group. I was hoping VBox 3 would fix this, but it hasn't.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> Do you mean that they do not appear in the list of USB devices at
> all, that they are grayed out, or that the OS in VertualBox does not
> see them?

They appear (correctly) under the Settings dialoguem for filters, but
when the VM is running the and I hover on the USB icon in the lower
border, it says "no USB devices are connected".

poc