[Mageia-discuss] No USB with VirtualBox on Mageia?

Mon Jun 6 12:10:34 CEST 2011

On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 08:00:03 PM mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org wrote:
+> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 06:37:34 PM mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org wrote:
+> > >   So if one installs Mageia's VBox and the extension pack,  USB will
+> > >
+> > > then be available?
+> >
+> > 
+> >
+> > It should be, and is working for most people.
+> >
+> > 
+> >
+> > The host Virtual box/extension pack, and the guest additions must all
+> > match version numbers.
+> >
+> > 
+> >
+> > On the one system (an upgrade from Mandriva 2010.2 to Mageia beta 2
+> > then updated via urpmi to final), I had to add the .conf file under
+> > /etc/ld.so.conf.d, to get it to work.  Seems most systems do not
+> > need that.
+> >
+> > 
+> >
+> > Regards, Dave Hodgins
+> 
+> I did that as well.
+> 
+> I have had to reinstall my Mageia system.  Somehow, installing Ubuntu on a 
+> spare partition trashed it.  I will try again, just in case there was a bug
+> in  my system.
+> 
+> Doug Laidlaw.
+> 
+> P.S.: I am not looking forward to wrestling with Grub2.
+
+I found the correct version of libcrypto among my Adobe Reader files in /opt.
+
+I have reinstalled the latest VirtualBox.  I have installed the extension pack 
+several times, but it isn't recognized.The Windows guest runs happily but 
+doesn't make the two USB devices available as it should.  The Ubuntu guest 
+crashes with a message that it was last closed down with USB 2.0 enabled and I 
+need to install the extension pack -- or disable USB 2.0 in its config somehow.
+
+I did have the config file that Dave mentioned, but now I can't find the 
+reference.
+
+Ready to give up.
+
+Doug.
+