USB Devices

By default, USB devices you plug in to your physical host are not available to your vserver guests. To make all your USB devices available to a specific guest, follow these instructions:

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Mount the USB filesystem in the guest

Now we edit the `fstab` file for the guest. The following works on a host running Debian Etch and a guest running Ubuntu 6.06.1. To find the way that `usbfs` is mounted in the host, I used:

cat /proc/mounts | grep usbfs

which returned:

usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0

Paste this line (or the one that suits your distro) to the end of `/etc/vservers/<guest>/fstab`, and restart the guest.

Test it

Now enter the guest, and see if you can see `/proc/bus/usb/devices`. Better still, plug in a USB device and see if it shows up in there.

Thanks

Information came from this thread (credit: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson) and from followup in IRC on 21 April 2007, again credit to Daniel.