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I could not even see the list under Devices > USB. In any rate, I found this entry that worked for me:

sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers ed

as my login name is ed

hope this helps.

Thank you. I have tried to mount drives through the Device menu but I get a message that an existing drive cannot be unmounted. I occasionally get a menu that suggests I mount a virtual drive and offers a explorer window but I have no idea what is wanted here. ??

Attempting to zip and attach file. Perhaps I have it now...

Stand by

OK got it and added LOg attached here.

I see no log file when right clicking the icon in Windows. Is this what you meant me to do?

In VirtualBox 5 my Vista Virtual Machine has no problem finding the optical disks. But in Ubuntu 15.10 or Ubuntu Mint 23 no OD can be mounted (as far as my ability takes me which is beginner). A "Disk" utility observes that the optical drives are there but I cannot use them. Ideas please?

I have Ubuntu hosted on a Windows 10 system. Can I copy the windows/User/Virtual Box VMs/Ubuntu folder, store it, and later paste it into a Virtual Box VMs folder run a saved Snapshot? A poor man's clone??

I am using VirtualBox 5.0.14 (with the Extension pack) on Linux Elementary hosting Windows 8.1. I had Windows running at 1920 x 1080 just after install and loading Guest additions. This looked very good. I updated 8.1 and reinstalled Guest additions but cannot get Windows to budge past 1280 x 960. M...