Getting USB to work in Virtualbox in F8

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Getting USB to work in Virtualbox in F8

Postby QuantumKnot on February 11th, 2008, 9:46 am

From http://www.spodesabode.com/discussion/3 ... ra-8-host/

First we add a new group called "usb" and add ourselves to it. I did this by adding the following line to /etc/group, where "spode" is my username.

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usb:x:503:spode


You could of course use the command line tools to add a group, but this is just as easy and I can make sure the group has the right group id - I used 503, but make sure you don't have another group with that ID.

Then I added the following line to /etc/fstab

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none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=503,devmode=664 0 0


Then I simply reboot the computer, (or log out and run mount -a). And now USB works a charm!
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