Author: Steve Kirk Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] VirtualBox USB passthrough
On Sunday 08 February 2009 12:34, Keir Whitlock wrote: > Hi Steve,
>
> I did this a while back so I hope I can remember this right but try
> adding a new group, like usb, then add your user to that group.
>
> usb:x:504:kwhitlock
>
> Then in your fstab add the following line, where devid is the group
> id above ^
>
> none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=504,devmode=664 0 0
>
>
> then do a mount -a, if that doesn't work try rebooting.
Thank you very much, that seems to have got the device into the guest OS
now!!