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Accessing USB devices in VirtualBox

Asked by Denis Hipsey

I am happily using VirtualBox, but cannot access USB devices. I have been unsuccessfully looking for appropriate files whose group I can change to "vboxusers". Guidance would be appreciated.

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oeolartep (oeolartep) said : 		#1

This solution worked for me :

Edit (as root) /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules (I use vim, you can use nano, gedit or whatever)

Change this line :

SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", MODE="0664"

To :

SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", MODE="0666"

For further advice see : http://www.virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf

See section 10 "Troubleshooting" there is a section on USB devices.

reference:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2507870

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oeolartep (oeolartep) said : 		#2

Be sure that you have installed "guest additions" in your guest machine.

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Denis Hipsey (dhipsey) said : 		#3

Thanks Omar. I will go from there.

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UbuntuAma (ama-bone) said : 		#4

You do not have the necessary permissions to save the file. Please, check that you typed the location correctly and try agai
got that in the end