Hi I managed to get my external hard drive to work in virtualbox by doing the following 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 The key to getting it to work was not to active the usb wireless keyboard and mouse and the usb microphone in the settings/usb bit in the virtual machine. I remain grateful to lots of people whose advice was invaluable. Bhupi -- could not enable usb in any virtual machine with win xp https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/161748 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
