"but the good news is this is not required anymore with current Virtualbox software."
Yes obviously over time any group that wants to be taken seriously on Linux will fix this problem. The problem is that it destroys backwards compatibility with any old hardware or software that relies on USBFS. At the very least. Even if you mimic the /proc/ structure that it wants to see. So they are adding new features that break old features, and apparently that's seen as a good thing by the Linux development team. They don't see that they are just making it different, not better, and establishing a history of unreliability and inconstancy in the process. Here we have people saying that we can't even rely on the ability to set up a boot menu to load old versions of the kernel! And we wonder why the software world is Balkanized? Proof right in front of you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/507824 Title: Linux kernel 2.6.31-18 in Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala doesn't support usbfs. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
