Virtual box USB problems

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Sep 23 17:09:42 UTC 2008


Nils Kassube wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Specifically, your /proc/bus/usb/* needs to be writable by the
>> vboxusers group - it isn't in Ubuntu, and even with the help of the
>> virtualbox community I haven't been able to figure out the correct udev
>> rules to make it boot that way.
> 
> Instead of udev I use an entry in "/etc/fstab". It looks like this:
> 
> none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1002,devmode=664 0 0

OK, that's a decent idea - it won't get wiped by the next upgrade of
initscripts.  Thanks.
-- 
derek





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