Tutorial
Fedora VirtualBox USB working
Scenario / Question:
How do I get VirtualBox USB support to work in Fedora ?
Solution / Answer:
Configure usbfs to allow vboxusers access to USB devices and add usbfs mount to /etc/fstab
Configure VirtualBox USB
Obtain the GID of the vboxusers group (your GID may different then 501):
# cat /etc/group |grep vboxusers |awk -F : '{print $3}'
501
Create a directory to mount usbfs in:
# mkdir /vbusbf
Add mount to /etc/fstab and change “devgid” value to the GID you obtained from the command above:
# echo none /vbusbf usbfs rw.devgid=501,devmode=664 0 0
Re-mount /etc/fstab mounts:
# mount -a
Add your user to the vboxusers group (change “username” to your username):
# usermod -a -G vboxusers username
Enable USB controller in VirtualBox for VM Host:
Settings > USB
virtualbox_usb
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will this work for fedora 12 and 13?
i was able to see the usb device mounted on virtualbox (winxp as guest OS) but i could not access the contents on the USB, i got a message that said that the filesystem is not recognized,
i am using FAT32 for my usb device
thanks, this does work on my fedora 12
but i’m still wondering why usb devices were already writeable for my user while only owned by root:root.
Since i’m not a member of the root group it means there is another way to be given the rights on the device which is not used by virtualbox but it should be (a policy ?).