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Running hot off the press 2.6.22-grml I took a look at the current version of VirtualBox. And I’m really amazed how responsive it is. Not only booting grml is rocking fast but also typing on the console is reaaaally fast – much more responsive than with VMware. (I took a look at VirtualBox several months ago already but the 64bit version did not work and I lost interest in it temporarly therefore.)

Though I stumbled upon a small problem, that’s why I’m feeding google (several users don’t seem to manage the problem ;-)):

That’s telling you that USB might not work as expected. ;-) When straceing the process you’ll notice that VirtualBox tries to access /proc/bus/usb/devices. Nowadays /proc/bus/usb is deprecated by libusb + /dev/bus/usb but of course it’s no problem to use /proc/bus/usb anyway. So until upstream of VirtualBox moves to libusb the workaround is as simple as:

# VBOX=$(grep vboxusers /etc/group | sed 's/vboxusers:x:\\(.*\\):.*/\\1/')
# mount -t usbfs -o devgid=$VBOX,devmode=664,nodev,noexec,nosuid none /proc/bus/usb

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