[ale] USB Group and VirtualBox

[Brian Pitts]

Marc Ferguson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My wife and I are doing some research to see how we can get USB support for
> VirtualBox.  She found a web site stating someone's theory that a line of
> coding, in /etc/fstab, allowing access through the USB group is the best
> option.  It makes sense to me, but I noticed that neither one of us had a
> USB group in our groups.  She's running openSUSE and I'm running Fedora.
> 
> Can we simply create a USB group and call it a day or does this group have
> to use a certain ID number for it to "act" as the USB group?  Thanks.
> 
> Here's the link to the article:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/VirtualBox#USB_Devices_Grayed_Out
> 
> Here's the line of code for fstab:
> # 85 is the USB group
> none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=85,devmode=664 0 0

/proc/bus/usb has been intentionally removed from a number of
distributions. For Ubuntu, this removal (as well as how to undo it)  is
described at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/156085.
Virtualbox probably needs to be updated to use /dev/bus/usb

-Brian