Comments on: Enable VirtualBox virtual machines(Guests) USB support

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:30:31 +0000

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 !

By: ozy

ozy — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:02:06 +0000

try this
sudo usermod -aG vboxusers your_username_here

reboot your machine than

By: guy van der velden

guy van der velden — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:22:57 +0000

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

By: Spyros

Spyros — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:54:10 +0000

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!!!