Enable USB of VirtualBox 2.x on Ubuntu 8.04

Environment

• Ubuntu 8.04 x64
• VistaulBox 2.x

Problems


Solutions
Edit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh, uncomment the following

#
# 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

Start /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh

#/etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start

Edit /etc/fstab, devgid is the group of USB users. Just create a new group for USB

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1005,devmode=664 0 0

Mount /proc/bus/usb for enable this now, no need to reboot

#mount /proc/bus/usb