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I currently have a Dell Studio 17 running Fedora 11, but there are times when i do need windows, so for this i’ve Installed my OEM windows that came with the machine into a virtualbox virtual machine. Works pretty good to be honest, but one thing i couldn’t get working was the webcam, the system just didn’t detect it. Virtualbox noticed that there were webcams available but wouldn’t allow me to select it, here’s what i did to get it working obviously change username to your actual username

1, create an entry in /etc/groups
usb:x:503:username

2, make sure username is in the vboxusers group
3, add this to the /etc/fstab
none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=503,devmode=664 0 0

mount -a or reboot i'm not sure this part is necassary

This should now allow you to select the usb devices that virtualbox has detected then allow you to install drivers for them within windows. Worked for me…..

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