Add yourself as a user in Virtual Box

Via command line:


sudo adduser $USER vboxusers

Via GUI:

System>Administration>Users and Groups

Hit "unlock" and then "manage groups". Add yourself as a user to "vboxusers" by clicking on "properties" and ticking next to your name. Hit OK.

Enable USB support in Virtual Box.

Open the mountdevubfs.sh file with a text editor as root:

sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh

Find the block of text which looks like the following:

#
# 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

Now uncomment the last 4 lines above to look like this:

#
# 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

Installing XP in Virtual Box

Comprehensive instructions given at the following url...

http://forums.raiden.net/viewtopic.php?t=13817

Fix VirtualBox after a new Kernel installation

After installing a new kernel, some packages dependent upon the kernel "headers" package will cease to function. To fix this problem, install the new kernel "headers" (if they're not there already) and then type.....

sh /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup