Enable VirtualBox virtual machines(Guests) USB support
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I installed Virtualbox and XP guest in Ubuntu 9.04,and enabled file sharing between them.But I encountered USB problem when I inserted a USB disk.Finally,I worked it out by following steps.
1.Open up VirtualBox,select the virtual machine and click on Settings.Then select USB in left and check the two checkboxes.
2.Open up terminal(Applications->Accessories->Terminal).Create usb group and add current user to the group:
sudo groupadd usbfs
sudo adduser your_username_here usbfs
3.Use this command,and you will get group id:
cat /etc/group | grep usbfs
Example of output:
usbfs:x:1001:wraith
Here,1001 is the group id.
4.Edit /etc/fstab by this command:
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Add this line in the bottom.
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1001,devmode=664 0 0
Here 1001 is the group id in step 3.
5.Run following command:
sudo chmod 777 /proc/bus/usb
Restart your computer.
Tips:
I don’t konw whether it matters,but you’d better install guest additions (from Devices->Install guest additions in VM window)
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Reader Comments
Hey man!!
Great work!!! I had tried pretty much every other solution I could find, but yours was the only one that worked!!! You ROCK!!! Thanks a million dude!!!
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guy van der velden Reply:
March 6th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
hello,
fine that it works with u, but the line
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs .. cannot work because bij me ubuntu 10.10 there is no usb in the dir bus.
Can u help me
guy
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ozy Reply:
March 9th, 2011 at 6:02 pm
try this
sudo usermod -aG vboxusers your_username_here
reboot your machine than
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Yea , I did like this ,just followed your steps , the last one was maybe to much, or maybe not. I do not know. I found an better way , but for the time now my OS is fucked up . I rebooted and did have surprise my system never booting up !!!!
sudo groupadd usbfs
sudo adduser your_username_here usbfs
cat /etc/group | grep usbfs
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1001,devmode=664 0 0
sudo chmod 777 /proc/bus/usb
(on sudo chmod it did not find the file. I do not know so I did one step more :
sudo usermod -aG vboxusers your_username_here
reboot your machine than
Yea I did reboot. Great mess after that.
Anyone can help please?????
Such a mess !
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