Tuesday, December 15, 2009

getting USB support of Virtualbox : second

1. add yourself to the vboxusers group:
# gpasswd -a YOURUSERNAME vboxusers

or using GUI

menu > System > Administration > User and Group

2. Find the devgid for 'vboxusers'
# grep vboxusers /etc/group
vboxusers:x:125:username

3. edit /etc/fstab
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=125,devmode=664 0 0

http://www.samlesher.com/ubuntu/virtualbox-with-usb-support-on-ubuntu