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

[Doug Laidlaw]

> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:51:10 +0100
> From: Maurice Batey <maurice at bcs.org.uk>
> To: mageia-discuss at mageia.org
> Subject: [Mageia-discuss] No USB with VirtualBox on Mageia?
> Message-ID: <pan.2011.06.02.16.51.10.62584 at bcs.org.uk>
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> I've just seen the following report elsewhere:
> 
> "...trying to run Virtualbox with Mageia as a host OS...
> ...
> USB devices aren't recognised even with the addon pack.  I can't try
> the versions from  Oracle, because they are built with Python 2.6, and
> Mageia has Python 2.7. "
> 
> I do hope this is only a temporary glitch, as I was considering trying
> Mageia as a replacement for Mandriva (where Virtualbox USB works
> perfectly), and I don't want to lose  VirtualBox USB functionality.
> 
> >  can't try
> > 
> > the versions from  Oracle, because they are built with Python 2.6, and
> > Mageia has Python 2.7. "
> 
> After I downloaded VirtualBox, I was able to:
> 
> urpmi VirtualBox*rpm --allow-force
> 
> It recompiled the driver and I was good to go.
> 

I posted that report on the Mandriva list.  Yes, I made sure that I had the 
right extension pack.  I haven't tried "urpmi --force".  Probably the Python 
version is not critical to functioning, but it does restrict the standard user 
to the Mageia RPM of virtualbox.  My problem was, that with no USB 
connectivity, I couldn't import any work to do.  Networking to my host system 
may have worked; I didn't try.

Doug.

I am in Digest mode.
I have just installed Version 4.0.8 on top with --force.  It didn't recompile 
DKMS, and the splash screen still shows 4.0.6.

Doug.