This post is about a great free & open source program virtualbox

Unfortunately sometimes it is bit complicated to get USB working. I made some investigation on how to mount USB devices inside virtual machines on my Ubuntu 7.10. If you experience same issues this post is certainly for you.

1. First of all you have to install non open source version from here

2. Open terminal and type

uncomment lines below

and save file

1. Open terminal and type

sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh add line below

and save

1. Restart computer

2. Enable in the setting of virtualbox support for usb and have a fun.