Author: Keir Whitlock Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] VirtualBox USB passthrough
Your welcome. Glad I could help.
Keir
Steve Kirk wrote: > 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!!
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
