To make USB devices work on VirtualBox on UBuntu

-Create a group called "usbfs" and add yourself to it.

-In terminal issue the following command:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

-In this file paste the following lines, and change the group ID according to the group ID that is shown for the group "usbfs".


# 1001 is the USB group ID
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1001,devmode=664 0 0


-Save and close file.


-In terminal, issue the following command:

VBoxManage list usbhost

-Use the output of this command to set up the filters for USB devices under VirtualBox.