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 ?).
The echo command is missing a redirect
>> /etc/fstab
This does not seem to help on CentOS-5 – still no USB access.
Thanks this make it work on Fedora 15 too!
excellent one…..didnt find it anywhere in web…got it from u…thanx…
thanks a lot…
Looked everywhere for fixes for Fedora 15. All kinds of information out there and none of it helped. This worked on VB 4.1 for me!
In the following command:
echo none /vbusbf usbfs rw.devgid=501,devmode=664 0 0
It should be a ‘,’, not a ‘.’ after rw. The correct command would be:
echo none /vbusbf usbfs rw,devgid=501,devmode=664 0 0 >> /etc/fstab
Hi,
Seems not to be working on Fedora 16 (x64) and VBox 4.1.8r75467
“lsusb” give my X10 controller (CMPro15) and when plugging/unplugging I see it appear in the logs on Fedora.
My “USB device” list remains completely empty in VBox, not even a USB memory stick appears…
Any clues ?
Let me correct this … the good old’ “shutdown -r” already did something … my USB devices *are* now visible in VBox but this specific USB controller is not working unfortunately ;-(
Tried a regular usb-memory stick and this does work well on my guest XP
Ohh crap ….
Thanks!! Work on Fedora 16 –
If VirtualBox USB doesn’t works after process just reboot !!!