How to Enable USB in VirtualBox in Ubuntu 8.10

Here is a guide for enabling the USB support in VirtualBox in Ubuntu.

1. Open fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

2. Add the following at the end of the file

# usbfs
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0

Mine looked like this



3. restart Ubuntu