VirtualBox USB Voodoo for Gutsy
By default, USB support doesn’t work in Gutsy even if you download the latest and greatest here.
To remedy this:
- alt+f2, gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
- Look for the part about magic and make it say this:
- Save the file and run the script via alt+f2, gksudo /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
- Restart VirtualBox and bask in the glory of a USB icon under Settings for your virtual machine
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# Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
#
mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
October 19th, 2007 at 9:13 am
upgraded to the latest and I don’t see a magic section in that file. Can you just add it? Thanks
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:10 am
Thanx a lot !! it works perfectly!
October 24th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Thank you so much.
I have been looking for a real fix for this and there are all sorts of “work arounds” but this is the only one that worked! I really appreciate it.
November 14th, 2007 at 4:16 am
[...] ich ein bisschen gesucht habe (nicht gegooglelt, sondern geyahoot) fand ich dann recht schnell die Lösung auf dem Blog von buranen.info. Da unter Gutsy jene Unterstützung per default deaktiviert ist, [...]
November 15th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Vielen vielen Dank, das funktioniert hervorragend
November 20th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
bei mir klappts anscheinend nicht:
usb auswahl wird weiterhin nicht angezeigt
bekomme nach:
gksudo /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
folgende meldung
ln: Erzeugen der symbolischen Verknüpfung „/dev/bus/usb/devices“ zu „.usbfs/devices“: File exists
ist das normal..
was ist zu tun?
danke für eure tipps
December 8th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I got the same message as flo. And the USB support is still not availible. Has anybody found a solution for this problem?
December 17th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Das gleiche Problem wie flo habe ich auch. Gibt es eine Lösung?
December 17th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Das Problem hat sich erledigt: USB wird nun angezeigt.
December 29th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
hi all,
I had the same problem.
Additional to the procedure described above I had to add the following line to the /etc/fstab:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=XXXX,devmode=664 0 0
XXXX ist the group id of vbxusers group.
December 31st, 2007 at 8:27 am
does not work for me.
January 7th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Hi there, thanks for your hack, it works great, will link you in my blog.
regards Jörg
January 7th, 2008 at 8:07 am
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January 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
You da man! Long live Linux!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:28 am
i did everything like the directions say, and VirtualBox is still now showing the USB setting.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
[...] hatte noch etwas Mühe mit der USB-Anbindung, welche ich dann mit einem Hinweis von buranen.info umschiffen konnte. Auf ubuntuusers.de gibt es ebenfalls eine Erklärung zu diesem [...]