Comments on: VirtualBox with USB Support on Ubuntu

By: mestrini

mestrini — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:34:36 +0000

Awesome guide! It’s something i was looking for for a long time.

Thanks also to digitalMonkey for mentioning the very important detail of ending the /etc/fstab editing with a carriage return because Ubuntu complained upon startup.

Confirmed to work on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx amd64 (host) and Ubuntu Lucid Lynx i386 (guest)

Thanks Sam!

By: netmild

netmild — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:37:27 +0000

is not work for me too..please any other alternate

By: Waacm

Waacm — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:41:43 +0000

Update: Sorry to have posted needlessly, but I figured it out, so don’t waste your time trying to help. Thanks so much for this Sam!

By: Waacm

Waacm — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:32:03 +0000

So I followed these instructions and as far as I can tell i did everything right. I have Ubuntu 9.10 and now i’ve installed Virtualbox 3.1. It seems like the only thing that changed is that there is an option under “Devices” that is inaccessible called “USB Device >” How can I make it so that that is enabled? I don’t see any options that say “Enable USB.” Sorry if this is too vague, or if I am a complete moron.

By: otcardinal34

otcardinal34 — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:17:39 +0000

Worked for me too on Kubuntu 9.10!

Great post by the way, I’ve looked through a thousand posts and none of them cited the fact that ubuntu repositories only had VirutalBox OSE. For a newbie that’s useful information!

Unfortunately we still need Windows XP for some tasks and without USB support, VirtualBox didn’t help much!

By the way, you can do everything through the graphic GUI of Kubuntu. Removing VirtualBox OSE, adding repositories & authorities, and installing VirtualBox 3.1! All in software manager!

@Martin : Yes autoremove doesn’t delete .Virtualbox folder, even if you remove the packages through the software manager. But always keep a backup of it in case…:-)

Thank you Sam!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:53:29 +0000

Works for me on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic with VirtualBox 3.1

@Martin, autoremove didn’t delete my ~/.VirtualBox folder, so you should be ok. If you’re worried just use remove

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:43:34 +0000

Anyone know if autoremove of VBox OSE will remove existing OSE virtual machines? I’d rather not back those (large) files up if I don’t have to. Thanks for the nice write-up.

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:56:57 +0000

Hi
I am beginner and need some help in making inter networking between host and virtual machine.On my machine these software are installed
1. ubuntu 9.04 (Host)
2. virtual Box 3.0.8
3. ubuntu 9.04 (virtual machine)
i have assigned the IP to host eth0 using file /etc/networking/interfaces. while on virtual machine eth0 ip assigned by VirtualBox. i am replacing this IP with same class which assigned host.
The problem is that, when i was send a ping command from host to virtual machine or virtual machine to host , then response is unreached host.

any tutorial or web link that helpful for me.thanks for advanced.

By: mue

mue — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:44:20 +0000

everything went fine, when i started win with vb and it detected the usb hub…

but when I attach an usb device i nothing happens in winxp

By: iPhone firmware upgrade with VirtualBox « pseudoberries

iPhone firmware upgrade with VirtualBox « pseudoberries — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:17:50 +0000

[...] will need the official release of VirtualBox for USB support and configure usbfs for user-level permission. This will enable the otherwise greyed out iPhone device from the USB Devices [...]