Debian, adb, and virtual box.

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Alright, decided to install debian in a virtual box so I could play with the kernel over the weekend. Usb debugging, adb functioning in Windows, Usb mounted in virtual box, however adb doesn't detect it. Ideas?

Did you download the Android SDK for Linux? link

Yeah. Hence me saying adb didn't detect it.

I think you need to enable usb passthrough or whatever you call. That may be in the addons pack that come with Sun Virtual Box

USB capturing is enabled, and both the USB port [0100] and HTC Android Phone (on port [0100]) are both captured.

Originally Posted by abcdfv

Alright, decided to install debian in a virtual box so I could play with the kernel over the weekend. Usb debugging, adb functioning in Windows, Usb mounted in virtual box, however adb doesn't detect it. Ideas?

Before you pull too much hair out, you REALLY need to make sure you have a really recent kernel. I had that exactly problem on Centos 5.3 and upgrade that box to fedora 12 or 13 whatever the latest one.

Have you tried installing Ubuntu using WUBI? It doesn't actually install it... it just puts the files on your Windows partition, and adds an entry for Ubuntu to the bootloader. That might be easier than trying to work out problems with Virtual Box.

This is my mom's computer, so I'm doing VB. Otherwise I'd just through Sabayon back on and dualboot, which is what I plan on doing when i get back to my computer.

I've seen VirtualBox act flaky about passing a USB device over to the hosted OS properly, especially USB-class devices.

Perhaps you could try uninstalling the device as detected by windows and then allowing it to be re-detected before you retry passing it to the VB. Might not work at all, but I have had to 'wrestle' some devices into properly passing-through to the VirtualBox-Hosted OS on more than one occasion.

Good luck either way!

Since this is my last day here, I think I'm just going to wait until I get back to my PC.

I appreciate everyone's help though.