[Klug-general] Virtualbox woes

[Andrew Miller (Spode)]

http://www.spodesabode.com/discussion/34/usb-fix-for-virtualbox-on-fedora-8-host/#Item_1

That has the USB fixes for Fedora 8 and a link to the Ubuntu fix too :) 
Both of which have worked for me without fault.

VirtualBox on XP and Vista is lovely though - it just works!

Mike Rentell wrote:
>
> Dan Attwood wrote:
>> after the discussion at the last meeting about virtualbox I decided 
>> to give usb support another go.
>>
>> I followed the various info on spodes site and on several other 
>> resources and soon add usb support running and was was happily mixed 
>> some banging tunes on with my usb mixer in propellerheads reason 
>> running in seamless mode on windows xp.
>>
>> and then I rebooted
>>
>> oh dear
>>
>> Now I get a message at boot time telling me that alsa failed to 
>> start. Then when I get into gnome sound in totem doesn't work - the 
>> volume slider is even greyed out. Sound in amarok is fine though. To 
>> add insult to injury the usb support stopped work as well.
>>
>> Anyone got any bright ideas?
>>
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> Not to be confused with an expert, just some history of my experience 
> with VirtualBox with several Linux distros.
>
>  I could get no joy with VB/USB on Debian 4.0 (Etch for 64 bits) on my 
> 64-bit AMD dual processor. In Virtualbox it would seem to find the USB 
> ports and identify what's on the end of them but they were forever 
> greyed out when hosting in WinXP or Win2000P and no amount of tweaking 
> various config files would work. I just couldn't find the 'Magic' 
> lines referred to in the handbook when working with Debian or Ubuntu - 
> which was equally disappointing.
>
> Mandriva 2008.2 64 bit was better - XP under VirtualBox popped up all 
> the USB ports so I could print directly but the printers were disabled 
> when addressed by any other Linux program whilst VB was running. But 
> they began working again when VB was shut down.
>
> I put Mepis 64-bit in three days ago. Wonderful, everything I own is 
> seen and works. It is a Debian style distro and is fine. Same problem 
> with the printers under VB - concurrent Linux programs can't print 
> until VB is shut down but that is livable with.
>
> However, absolutely none of these will see my on-board sound system 
> either straight Linux or VB. The PC came with an on-board sound 'card' 
> which VirtualBox determined was an unknown USB function. But it didn't 
> work. All the Linuxes didn't see it either. So I have disabled it and 
> popped in a separate PCI card of standard format and the Linuxes all 
> saw that immediately. It configures automatically under ALSA but no 
> sound under VirtualBox with either XP or Win2000P even though I have 
> set the VB setup to address ALSA.
>
> Go figure - as they say. VirtualBox is great - it lets me run my 
> association's accounts (I'm the treasurer) which are Win/Sage whilst 
> having all the other Linux goodies available on other screens. Pity 
> about the sound problem.
>
> My advice is to ring the changes with ya distros.
>
> Do dat 'elp at all.
>
> MikeR
>
>
>
> Mandriva found the
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