Comments on: How to enable USB support in VirtualBox on a linux host

By: mk_michael

mk_michael — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:53:35 +0000

I’m actually using Debian Etch and it works very fine

By: mk_michael

mk_michael — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:52:00 +0000

Hello Kevin,
my mountkernfs.sh looks like:
#
# Mount proc filesystem on /proc
#
domount proc “” /proc proc -onodev,noexec,nosuid
domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs onodev,noexec,nosuid,devgid=122,devmode=664

my fstab looks like:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=122,busmode=0775,devgid=122,devmode=0664 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:44:01 +0000

Apparently usbfs is not used after ubuntu 7.10 so this technique will not work with the latest releases of Ubuntu.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:28:21 +0000

# sudo VirtualBox does not work on my laptop with Ubuntu 9.04. Virtualbox acts like it has just been installed and does not see any of the VMs already installed.

Editing mountkernfs.sh and fstab which in Ubuntu should be done using sudo gedit didn’t work either. First I pasted the entire group id for vboxusers and then just the group id # and neither worked. An example of what it should look like would help this relative newbie.

By: Luciano

Luciano — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:26:19 +0000

Hi,
I have a simple ideia…
Just type on shell with root privileges…
# sudo VirtualBox

Thanks for the help… if you don’t say that the problem was the privileges, i will never know.