When you get it working, If you goto the bottom of the VM window where the usb Icon is, I had to reboot to get the permissions to take effect.Īnd my printer wasnt availible until I shared a folder (dont know whats up whith that) That is how I did it for both Mint 9 Isadora 圆4 and Mint 9 debian x32 That way you are sure to get the correct ones for the version you have. I almost forgot after you start the VM go to

Then I installed the virtualbox dkms from apt to go with it.Įdit. when I installed it, it told me to manually use apt to completely remove all instances of ose or it would not install properly. Were you running virtualbox ose at any time and did you do a clean install of mint 10 and which version? The reason Im asking is that from what I can tell virtualbox ose does not have usb support, but version 3.2.10 does. WARNING dont activate the usb mouse that wasnt one of my wisest moments This camera wont work in linux as far as I know but seems to in virtualbox. XP went to found new hardware and wanted the windows drivers. I plugged it in and as soon as I did the step above # I just checked with my old IBM PC camera. If you right click on it you should now be able to turn them on in virtualbox.

That gives virtualbox permission to activate the usb devices.Īfter that is done on the virtualbox status bar there is an icon for usb devices inside that should be a checkbox befor your username. In the next window you should see a 'Group members' box. scroll down to 'vboxusers', click it and then 'Properties'. Go to Menu- Administration - users and groups.Ĭlick on 'manage groups'.

Virtualbox is not given user permissions by default. I just installed virtualbox a few days ago into LM9Īnd this is what I had to do.

How to use virtualbox on linux mint