VirtualBox problems

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 17:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > # mount -o remount,devgid=505,devmode=664 -t none /proc/bus/usb
> usbfs
> > mount: mount point usbfs does not exist
> > 
> Try mount -o remount,devgid=505,devmode=664 none /proc/bus/usb -t
> usbfs
> 
> The device to mount is none, the mount point is /proc/bus/usb and
> the file system type is usbfs. You have to use the full command,
> instead of just giving it the mount point because it was mounted
> before /etc/mtab was writable.
> > 
> >> I have not tried it, as I use a udev rule to set the permissions on
> >> a specific device instead of all USB devices.
> > 
> > I'll poke around in the udev stuff.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> I think 10-vboxdrv.rules is susposed to take care of it, but it does
> not work on Fedora.

Magically it all started working without me having to mess with the udev
stuff. I think the fstab line did the trick in the end. It didn't work
before because I hadn't done "mount -a" (doh ...).

Thanks for all your help.

poc