zivley
July 12th, 2009, 09:19 AM
Hi all,
I've been trying to make this work for a long time, I've tried so many things but only a combination of bits from here and there brought me to be successfully able to use Nokia PC Suite on my Win XP guest under the VirtualBox Ubuntu Jaunty host.
First of all I'll list my setup, perhaps your needs or hardware might be different, but the solution will match on most cases, adapting to the differences.
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Laptop with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 64Bit, which has an internal "Broadcom Corp BCM2045B" Bluetooth adaptor.
I installed the Sun VirtualBox 3.0.0 r49315 (Not OSE, but full version, recommended)
So after installing Win XP SP3 I didn't see any bluetooth devices detected and then the saga started, long story short, here's how I've made it work, step by step. Please make sure the VirtualBox program and its guests are closed during this whole procedure!
Open a terminal window for the following shell commands
Make sure your username is a member of the "vboxusers" group (this should have been already taken care by the VirtualBox installer, but we make sure)
sudo usermod -aG vboxusers <your username>
Now check what is the group ID of the "vboxuser" group, remember the number
grep vboxusers /etc/group | awk -F ":" '{print $3}'
Now we need to search for the "usbfs" file, it's better to do while a USB device is plugged in, in my case it was at '/sys/bus/usb/drivers' and it will be most probably there for you too, remember this path too, we'll need this and the previous GID number for the next step
Open/Edit the '/etc/fstab' file
gksu gedit /etc/fstab &
Add this lines to the end, replacing the path to 'usbfs' and the group ID with yours (devgid=XXX)
# For USB access with Virtualbox
none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=129,devmode=664 0 0
Now we need to remount the filesystem
sudo mount -a
Running cat /etc/mtab | grep usbfs should give you something like this:
none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs rw,devgid=129,devmode=664 0 0
which means the filesystem is mounted, now is time to see if it works, open VirtualBox, start the guest OS and you will hopefully see the new hardware detected wizard pops up, the automatic install will take care of the rest!
Hope this helps!
I've been trying to make this work for a long time, I've tried so many things but only a combination of bits from here and there brought me to be successfully able to use Nokia PC Suite on my Win XP guest under the VirtualBox Ubuntu Jaunty host.
First of all I'll list my setup, perhaps your needs or hardware might be different, but the solution will match on most cases, adapting to the differences.
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Laptop with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 64Bit, which has an internal "Broadcom Corp BCM2045B" Bluetooth adaptor.
I installed the Sun VirtualBox 3.0.0 r49315 (Not OSE, but full version, recommended)
So after installing Win XP SP3 I didn't see any bluetooth devices detected and then the saga started, long story short, here's how I've made it work, step by step. Please make sure the VirtualBox program and its guests are closed during this whole procedure!
Open a terminal window for the following shell commands
Make sure your username is a member of the "vboxusers" group (this should have been already taken care by the VirtualBox installer, but we make sure)
sudo usermod -aG vboxusers <your username>
Now check what is the group ID of the "vboxuser" group, remember the number
grep vboxusers /etc/group | awk -F ":" '{print $3}'
Now we need to search for the "usbfs" file, it's better to do while a USB device is plugged in, in my case it was at '/sys/bus/usb/drivers' and it will be most probably there for you too, remember this path too, we'll need this and the previous GID number for the next step
Open/Edit the '/etc/fstab' file
gksu gedit /etc/fstab &
Add this lines to the end, replacing the path to 'usbfs' and the group ID with yours (devgid=XXX)
# For USB access with Virtualbox
none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=129,devmode=664 0 0
Now we need to remount the filesystem
sudo mount -a
Running cat /etc/mtab | grep usbfs should give you something like this:
none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs rw,devgid=129,devmode=664 0 0
which means the filesystem is mounted, now is time to see if it works, open VirtualBox, start the guest OS and you will hopefully see the new hardware detected wizard pops up, the automatic install will take care of the rest!
Hope this helps!