Comments on Installing VirtualBox 3.1 On An Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop

To get USB working, you must add the following to /etc/fstab

#VirtualBox USB - 122 is the gid of vboxusers group
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=122,devmode=664 0 0

and make sure your user is in the vboxusers group

The vboxusers ID can be different than listed above,  first open terminal and:

grep vboxusers /etc/group

#vboxusers:x:125:nathan -- was my vboxusers ID

for enable usb on my winxp guest i had to add my user in

vboxusers and lp group:

adduser <your user> lp

adduser <your user>  vboxusers

reboot and solved

note: my sunvirtualbox is on a ubuntu 9.10 64bit

Hi

I tried  this installation procedure and I have this error

E: Malformed line 54 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist)

How can I solve this problem?

Thanks

Faris

I'm new to Ubuntu and was messing around and got this problem.  Try using this line at the end of the source list instead of the one given.  It worked for me

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free 

Hi,

I tried to use that way. However, in the second screenshot that we are supposed to say "yes", there isn't such an option and I only see <OK>, but this button doesn't work either! what can I do? How can I fix that problem??

Thanks in advance. 

JacK

Hello,

 I have both Windows 7 and Ubuntu installed. I have installed Virtualbox on Windows 7. Is there anyway I can access Ubuntu from Virtualbox. I do not want to install new Ubuntu on virtualbox. I want to use the existing Ubuntu.

Appreciate any help.

Moiz

Works great thanks!