virtualbox and USB support on fedora?

Luciano Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Fri Feb 22 10:02:24 UTC 2008


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 04:55:05AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i'm perusing the user guide for virtualbox and i read the following:
> 
> "In order to use VirtualBox’s USB support, the user account under
> which you intend to run VirtualBox must have read and write access to
> the USB filesystem (usbfs)."
> 
>   isn't that statement a bit out of date?  i don't see usbfs in use
> any more on a standard fedora system, so i'm just assuming that claim
> above is out of date.

$ grep usb /proc/mounts
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0

$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)

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