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uidb4056

Only the first part regarding fstab is necessary in Intrepid, the rest only is needed in hardy.

In your fstab you need to put:

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=XXX,devmode=664 0 0

being XXX the group ID of your user when you look under System-Administration-Users&Groups for the group vboxusers.

October 29th, 2008	#2
uidb4056 Gee! These Aren't Roasted! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Barcelona - Spain Beans: 198 Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala	Re: Virtualbox error "Failed to access the USB subsystem" Only the first part regarding fstab is necessary in Intrepid, the rest only is needed in hardy. In your fstab you need to put: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=XXX,devmode=664 0 0 being XXX the group ID of your user when you look under System-Administration-Users&Groups for the group vboxusers.