Dfu-util under VirtualBox

Troubleshooting
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I just got a Photon and I am trying to setup a development environment under Linux under VirtualBox but I am getting this:

$ dfu-util -l
dfu-util 0.9

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dfu-util: Cannot open DFU device 2b04:d006

I have tried on OS X and Windows and I get the correct

Found DFU: [2b04:d006] ver=0200, devnum=29, cfg=1, intf=0, alt=1, name="@DCT Flash   /0x00000000/01*016Kg", serial="00000000010C"
Found DFU: [2b04:d006] ver=0200, devnum=29, cfg=1, intf=0, alt=0, name="@Internal Flash   /0x08000000/03*016Ka,01*016Kg,01*064Kg,07*128Kg", serial="00000000010C"

But on those working enviroments it is not as a virtual machine so that is the only problem I can see. Is there anything special that needs to be done to get this to work?

2

try sudo dfu-util -l

3

Wow, that worked! Now I feel silly, I think I had tried that before when I had not installed the drivers on my host OS and it didn’t work and I didn’t bother trying it again.

Thanks