Ubuntu 10.04, VirtualBox and USB
May. 9th, 2010 02:05 pmAt the moment there isn't an official stable build of VirtualBox for Ubuntu 10.04. The Karmic build works OK until you hit a need for USB support.
The workaround I am using at the moment is to run the Lucid build of the 3.2.0 beta available here. If you run it as root USB works properly, alternately you can add your usual user account to the 'root' group and it'll work.
I believe it's poking around in /dev/bus/usb, which is all world-readable but only writable by root:root. There's probably a better fix for this than giving your user account such open-slather access but all of /dev is being managed automatically these days and I'm a little unclear on just how one could go about convincing the responsible subsystem to, say, make all the USB device nodes owned by a 'usb' group instead.
The workaround I am using at the moment is to run the Lucid build of the 3.2.0 beta available here. If you run it as root USB works properly, alternately you can add your usual user account to the 'root' group and it'll work.
I believe it's poking around in /dev/bus/usb, which is all world-readable but only writable by root:root. There's probably a better fix for this than giving your user account such open-slather access but all of /dev is being managed automatically these days and I'm a little unclear on just how one could go about convincing the responsible subsystem to, say, make all the USB device nodes owned by a 'usb' group instead.
