Using Alfa awus036ach wireless adapter with Kali guest

[VirtualMichael]

Hi,
I have been trying to connect the Alfa adapter to a Kali guest (2019.2) with realtek-rtl88xxau-dkms drivers.
The device connects briefly and then disconnects.
I see errors in dmesg

root@kali:~/rtl8812au# dmesg |tail
[ 1171.941815] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1171.941816] usb 1-2: Product: 802.11n NIC
[ 1171.941817] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 1171.941818] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 123456
[ 1172.483738] usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 1172.640000] usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 1172.878620] usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 1173.111116] usb 1-2: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 1173.242887] usb 1-2: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[ 1174.110877] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 5

It sometimes stays connected long enough to appear in iwconfig.

I am running Version 6.0.12 r133076 (Qt5.6.2) with the same version extension pack.
I have tried using usb 2 and usb 3 controller in settings, with and without a filter.

The adaptor connects ok when Kali is running directly on the laptop with the same version of driver.

Are there any other settings I should change ?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.

[socratis]

Please read the following thread: USB basics and troubleshooting, all of the posts.

If you still have a problem after reading through the whole thing, please follow the advice of the last post, #8: Asking for help and post the information requested.

More particularly I'd like to see if there's any correlation between the 'VBox.log' and the 'dmesg' output in the guest.