Emmet is, unfortunately, correct. I had forgotten to re-disable the
section in /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh too.

The devices file itself is created when a usbfs mount is created, using:

$ mkdir .usbfs
$ sudo mount -n -t usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644 usbfs .usbfs
$ ls .usbfs
001  002  003  004  005  devices
$ cat devices
$ cat .usbfs/devices

T:  Bus=05 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=480 MxCh= 8
B:  Alloc=  0/800 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.22-14-generic ehci_hcd
...

Unless there is some over-arching reason *not* to use usbfs then the
best solution is, I think, to amend /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh so
instead of:

        #
        # 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

we have

        #
        # Magic to give virtual machines (KVM/QEMU, VirtualBox, VMWare, etc) 
access to host USB devices
        #
        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

This could be added as an additional stanza (which takes the solution
back to amending the "sysvinit" package).

The alternative is to add a complete new set of scripts and links,
either:

/etc/rc.S/S12mountdevusbfs -> /etc/init.d/mountdevusbfs.sh

or

/etc/rc2.d/S20mountdevusbfs -> /etc/init.d/mountdevusbfs.sh

That, coupled with the alteration to KVM/QEMU would solve the issue.

Comments please?

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