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How to Get USB Working in Virtual Box on
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
November 9th, 2008 | 12 Comments
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Just a quick post for those of you settling into the latest version of Ubuntu!
Enabling USB in Sun VirtualBox is a little different in Intrepid Ibex than other
versions. Remember, you’ll have to have the closed source, Personal Use and
Evaluation version of VirtualBox for this one. The Open Source Edition
(VirtualBox OSE) doesn’t have usb support!
First, fire up a terminal and open your fstab file:
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Then, add the following lines at the end:
#Make USB Work in Sun VirtualBox
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0
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Save and exit.
Issue this command:
sudo mount -a
Open up VirtualBox, and you should be able to set up USB for your virtual
machine! More info can be found at this Ubuntu Forums thread.
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12 Responses to “How to Get USB Working in Virtual Box on
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex”
1. Torben on December 7th, 2008 at 1:08 am
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Thank you,
highly appreciated! :)
2. zcat on December 11th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Why devgid=46. This is system specific.
>grep vboxusers /etc/group
Will give you the gid, mine was 128….
Thanks
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=962726&
highlight=virtualbox+fstab
3. Marie on December 17th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Thanks it was a huge help, one of the best explained ways I’ve read so far.
4. Tom on December 28th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Thank you, thank you! awesome and clearly explained and to the point it
works as showed unlike others that are too wordy and worse yet they
don’t work like this one. You are great! thanks again.
5. Bjrn Grønbæk on January 11th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Thank you, that worked like a charm.
6. rich on January 18th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Works a treat, many thanks!
7. Eamonn on January 18th, 2009 at 5:56 am
Nice one!
8. Andy D. on March 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
zcat:
I believe it’s supposed to be devgid=46 (at least it works for me). If you do
‘grep 46 /etc/group’, you’ll see that it corresponds to the plugdev group,
which is probably true for all Ubuntu distributions.
A little bit of searching brought up the following description of the
plugdev group:
————
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From http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/11/msg00201.html
…’plugdev’…
Every user who is a member of this group can access hotpluggable
devices (digital cameras, USB drives etc.). pmount can only be executed
by members of this group (it is root:plugdev 750), hal runs in this group
to be able to detect file systems (but it does not run in ‘disk’), and udev
assigns the ‘plugdev’ group to removable devices (static drives remain in
group ‘disk’).
————–
Since removable devices are to be assigned to the plugdev group, it
makes sense that we use devgid=46 when we make this usb-related
device. :) I hope this clairifies.
9. ibrahim on September 30th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Thanks a lot!!
it worked perfectly on Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope
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12. M. Aaaalonso on November 6th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Thank you very much! It works on PCLinuxOS too. Much obliged!
M. Alonso
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