[Wylug-discuss] Help USB devices under Virtualbox

[mark]

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James Holden wrote:
> The problem is that Linux has loaded a module for it, "cp210x", a USB
> serial port driver. If you unload that module, you should find that the
> VirtualBox option is no longer greyed out and it'll be available to the
> XP guest.
> 
> You'll want to make sure it doesn't get reclaimed on the next reboot
> though. You can either blacklist the module
> in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf or alternatively you could fiddle with
> HAL/UDEV so it gets ignored in a more targeted way.

This is very helpful and clears up some problems I've been having.
Thanks James!

Mark
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