[ale] usb headset and virtualbox

[Todor Fassl]

I tried yet another USB headset and it worked.  Good thing I have 3. 
That is weird though. I happen to have 3 USB headsets and 2 of the 3 
simply do not show up in the list of USB devices when I do, "vboxmanage 
list usbhost". All 3 headsets are pretty old, maybe 6 to 8 years. They 
all work but maybe 2 of the 3 don't do some USB protocol thing right.

I don't know though. I've mentioned before that I'm blind and I have a 
braille display that is older than that. I think it was manufactured in 
2005. (Costs like $2,700.) Anyway, it shows up.
Seems to me that desktop virtualization has a lot of quirks. I switched 
from vmware workstation to virtualbox because of vmware's quirks.

On 11/19/2015 05:08 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Grasping at straws here...
>
> Does USB pass through require specific devices to be configured? Maybe
> thumbdrives are allowed by default and other devices need specific
> permission. No idea where to set that up.
>
> On Nov 19, 2015 3:49 PM, "Todor Fassl" <fassl.tod at gmail.com
> <mailto:fassl.tod at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Anybody have any idea why a usb headset might not show up in a list
>     of devices for virtualbox? I'm running virtualbox 5.0 on ubuntu
>     vivid. When I list usb devices with 'vboxmanage list usbhost', I see
>     my usb keyboard and kvm but not my usb headset. In fact, I have 2
>     usb headsets plugged into the machine and neither of them are
>     listed. They both work though. I can get sound from the ubuntu host
>     through them.
>
>     It's not the problem where you have to add yourself to the vboxusers
>     group. If you don't do that, nothing is listed when you run
>     'vboxmanage list usbhost'. I already added myself to that group and
>     the keyboard and kvm show up.
>
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>     Todd
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Todd