Nov. 18, 2008
Installing Intrepid once again broke the USB support in Virtualbox. If your getting the following error, the next few lines are for you.
The previous fix for Hardy should no longer be used as the mountdevsubfs.sh looks different in Intrepid. The following solution was proposed in a ubuntu forum and looks as if it does the job. Simply add the following line at the end of your /etc/fstab file:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0
Make sure that your user is member or the group with gid 46 or adjust the above line. Once added to fstab mount the file system using:
sudo mount /proc/bus/usb