After a brief return to Windows XP (surely it can’t have been that terrible… oh yes it was), I am now back on Hardy Heron once again. For those few essential Windows apps that I can’t live without I’ve recreate a VM in VirtualBox. All fine and dandy, except all of my host’s USB devices were showing as “unavailable”. Strange indeed. The host could access them perfectly well, but not the guest VM.
After a quick Google, I found the answer on this page:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-541195.html
Basically, I had to set up a “usbfs” group, add myself to it, and then create an entry in /etc/fstab that read:
# 1001 is the USB group ID
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1001,devmode=664 0 0
Hey presto, USB device can now be connected to the VM. Bizarrely, this didn’t need to be done the last time I had a flirtation with Hardy.
*** UPDATE ***
VirtualBox 2.2 doesn’t actually need you to do this. All you need to do is add yourself to the vboxusers group.
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After a brief return to Windows XP (surely it can't have been that terrible... oh yes it was), I am now back on Hardy Heron once again. For those few essential Windows apps that I can't live without I've recreate a VM in VirtualBox. All fine and dandy, except all of my host's USB ...
I have just returned from my latest bout of celebrity bothering at the NEC in Birmingham. This weekend they are hosting the Memorabilia show, featuring a number of sports and media stars, along with a variety or memorabilia dealers.
As per usual, I managed to spend far more money than I planned to. The new autographs I’ve added to my collection are:
Holly McGuire
Amylu Bennet
Robert Vaughn
Craig Charles
Robert Llewellyn
I had my picture taken with Holly McGuire who was very chatty, and every bit a lovely as I remember her being from my younger days.
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I have just returned from my latest bout of celebrity bothering at the NEC in Birmingham. This weekend they are hosting the Memorabilia show, featuring a number of sports and media stars, along with a variety or memorabilia dealers.
As per usual, I managed to spend far more money than I planned to. The new ...
On Wednesday we were lucky enough to have John Archer come and lecture to us at the Thames Valley Magicians Guild. He is a very funny guy, and kept us all enthralled for a number of hours with his mix of comedy and magic. If you get the chance to see him lecture (or perform) I highly recommend it. Even as a fellow magician, I still managed to miss a number of deck switches, and even crib sheets attached to innocent objects. His take on the “tossed out” deck was well worth the cost of the lecture alone. Really I should stop praising him now in case he reads this and develops a big head.
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On Wednesday we were lucky enough to have John Archer come and lecture to us at the Thames Valley Magicians Guild. He is a very funny guy, and kept us all enthralled for a number of hours with his mix of comedy and magic. If you get the chance to see him lecture (or ...
Following on from my saga of the overheating Acer Power 2000, I decided to go back to running Ubuntu Hardy Heron and only run Windows XP in Virtual Box for the few bits and pieces I couldn’t run using Wine or CrossOver Office. This move worked out pretty good, except for problems I was having getting GWT’s hosted mode browser to show the project I was working on. The console launched, the browser launched, and then nothing. No error message. Nothing. A compilation with the shell script worked fine, but it’s a real pain to have to recompile a project just to check the look and feel.
First I thought it could be because I was using GWT-Ext. The solution they give is to include the javascript files in your module instead of the HTML page.
http://gwt-ext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2277
Alas, it didn’t help.
Then I stumbled across the solution here:
http://markmail.org/message/4kpni2fnicj4hykt
Basically, I keep all of my source code on a removable USB hard drive. The hard drive is formatted with FAT 32. In order for the hosted mode browser to work, you need to edit /etc/fstab to mount the drive with slightly different parameters.
I thought this would be worth a try, so I created a fstab entry:
/dev/sdb1 /media/Elements vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,flush,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=mixed,umask=077,usefree
Et Voila! The hosted mode browser works absolutely fine.
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Following on from my saga of the overheating Acer Power 2000, I decided to go back to running Ubuntu Hardy Heron and only run Windows XP in Virtual Box for the few bits and pieces I couldn't run using Wine or CrossOver Office. This move worked out pretty good, except for problems I was ...
Anyone who has followed an external link to the blog may be wondering why it didn’t work. Over the Christmas holidays I decided to move my hosting from Beyond Ego to Heart Internet. As tends to happen when I do these spur of the moment things, I forgot to make a backup of the old blog database. Unfortunately this means that all of my old blog posts have been consigned to the ether.
So if you are looking for tales of my musical outings to Oxford, or my attempts to shoe-horn dojo into Google App Engine, or my Balloon animals: I am very sorry, they are no more!
As a sort of consolation prize, here is a balloon snowman I made for my sister at Christmas. More blog posts to follow…
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Anyone who has followed an external link to the blog may be wondering why it didn't work. Over the Christmas holidays I decided to move my hosting from Beyond Ego to Heart Internet. As tends to happen when I do these spur of the moment things, I forgot to make a ...
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