hello app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.1.0 builds without usb support. binary version works fine. i've tried to enable the udev rules, to add the user to the usb and plugdev groups, to run it as root with no luck. binary version works fine. emerge -vp app-emulation/virtualbox-ose These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild IN ] app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-additions-3.1.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.1.0 USE="additions alsa hal opengl pulseaudio python qt4 -headless -sdk -vboxwebsrv" 0 kB Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-3.1.0 emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc56 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-tuxonice-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-tuxonice-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_@_2.93GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.wheel.sk/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j6 -l8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp/portage/working" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/kde-testing /usr/local/portage/layman/dottout /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk hal iconv jpeg kde lm_sensors logrotate mmx modules mozdevelop mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia offensive opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtsp session spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification sysfs tcpd tiff truetype twolame unicode upnp vdpau virtualbox vorbis x264 xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel-hda" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Hmm, have you read virtualbox page ? http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions USB is a feature only available on -bin edition (non open source)
ops. you are right, i've totally missed that. thanks