What changes do I need to make to 40-permissions. to get usb access in xVM VBox

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On an older Gateway P4 with 512M, I'm running kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.2, have added xVM VirtualBox ver. 2.1.2 and created a win-XP box allowing only 228M ram. VB is set to allow usb 1.1 and they show as active but I cannot access any usb devices. I saw an answer to kubuntu 7.04 but the 40-permissions.rules file is different and I don't what or where to make changes to allow pass-through. Following is the rule from my *rules file.

# USB serial converters
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GOTO="usb_serial_start"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GOTO="usb_serial_start"
GOTO="usb_serial_end"
LABEL="usb_serial_start"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", \
MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout"
LABEL="usb_serial_end"

[jankushka]

Re: What changes do I need to make to 40-permissions. to get usb access in xVM VBox

i have no direct experience with this.
there seems to be a bunch of things that need to be done according to this ubuntu community help.
different things apply to gutsy, hardy and intrepid.
hth