VirtualBox USB solution on ubuntu linux

when you install VirtualBox you wont be able to enable the usb devices on the guest os, the solution for this is to do the following:

1- add yourself to the vboxusers groupe in /etc/group
2- add this line “none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=123,devmode=664 0 0″ to the /etc/fstab at the end

NOTE: 123 is the group id you can get that id by this command “grep vboxusers /etc/group”

it works for me
ubuntu 9.10
virtualbox 3.0.8

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2 Comments on “VirtualBox USB solution on ubuntu linux”

ratio Says:

November 1, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Thnk you for that workaround. Is this solution intended for OSE edition (which is installed in Ubuntu by apt-get install ..) or for the commercial version?

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- lionlix Says:
  
  November 7, 2009 at 4:54 pm
  The one you install it by apt-get install
  
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