VirtualBox and Ubuntu Gutsy

Yea, Ubuntu Gutsy is out!! Just updated my system using the instructions on the kubuntu site. After the upgrade – about 20 minutes – even my mysterious ATI drivers still work perfectly.

Unfortunately, the ubuntu guys decided to remove the usbfs from Gutsy. As virtualbox relies on this system for usb support > no usb support in virtualbox under linux.

As a quick workaround edit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh and remove the comment #’s from the following lines:

#
# Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
#
#mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
#domount usbfs “” /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
#ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
#mount –rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

Running /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh start afterwards reenables the usbfs, virtualbox is happy again 🙂