Virtual Box have 2 Edition :
1. VBox Open Source Edition(OSE) [USB will not work in this edition]
2. Vbox Closed Source Edition [USB is working fine in this edition]
So make sure to used this tutorial in Closed Source Edition.
1. Find out what group id(gid) of the Vboxusers
root@me:$ grep vbox /etc/group
It will show this :
vboxusers:x:<gid>
:david
2. Enable the deprecated /proc/bus/usb inteface:
root@me:$ sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
It will show this :
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mountkernfs
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: S
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Mount kernel virtual file systems.
# Description: Mount initial set of virtual filesystems the kernel
# provides and that are required by everything.
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/lib/init:/sbin:/bin
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
. /lib/init/mount-functions.sh
do_start () {
#
# Mount proc filesystem on /proc
#
#for hardy:
domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=<gid>,devmode=664
#for intrepid:
domount usbfs "" /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs -onoexec,nosuid,nodev,devgid=<gid>,devmode=664
#
# Mount sysfs on /sys
#
domount sysfs "" /sys -onodev,noexec,nosuid
# Mount /var/run and /var/lock as tmpfs.
domount tmpfs "" /var/run -omode=0755,nodev,noexec,nosuid
domount tmpfs "" /var/lock -omode=1777,nodev,noexec,nosuid
# Mount spufs, if Cell Broadband processor is detected
if mountpoint -q /proc && grep -qs '^cpu.*Cell' /proc/cpuinfo; then
mkdir -p /spu
domount spufs "" /spu -ogid=spu
fi
# Propagate files from the initramfs to our new /var/run.
for file in /dev/.initramfs/varrun/*; do
[ -e "$file" ] || continue
cp -a "$file" "/var/run/${x#/dev/.initramfs/varrun/}"
done
}
case "$1" in
"")
echo "Warning: mountvirtfs should be called with the 'start' argument." >&2
do_start
;;
start)
do_start
;;
restart|reload|force-reload)
echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
exit 3
;;
stop)
# No-op
;;
*)
echo "Usage: mountvirtfs [start|stop]" >&2
exit 3
;;
Note : replacing <gid> with the <gid> you found in the first step.
4. Reboot and it is done.
Enjoy It....
