access USB devices from VirtualBox

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 08/18/2009 07:46 PM, L wrote:
> hope some one offer a fix?
>
>    

This is due to a legacy usbfs system in use by Fedora. No other 
distribution uses usbfs anymore. VirtualBox is coded to use legacy 
first, then libusb.

In order to get around having to add an entry in /etc/fstab, you can 
remove the usbfs mounting in /etc/rc.sysinit and reboot. This will allow 
VBox to use libusb.

I've brought it up on the list before and the knee-jerk response was 
that VBox is broken -- it's "proprietary" (which is wrong, only the RDP 
piece is) and not kvm/qemu/xen (Fedora/Red Hat products).