How To Enable USB Support for Virtualbox in OpenSUSE 11.1

**Get lasted version of VirtualBox from here.

  • After install, go to YaST > Security and Users > User and Group Management
  • Select Groups, you can see vboxusers’ group then double click to edit information
  • Remember Group ID (gid) and see at right, select username you want to allow to use VirtualBox
  • Close YaST, Open fstab file and add this line :

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=XXX,devmode=664 0 0

* XXX is Group ID (gid) that I told you to remember, it’s the ID group of vbox

  • Add following line to /etc/init.d/boot.local

mount -a

  • Restart system, then USB can work with VirtualBox

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Extra : When VirtualBox told you to recompile kernel

In my cast, I just installed kernel-module and gcc before recompile done. you can see error in log file.

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