Aqualung wrote:multiOS wrote:@Aqualung,
The VirtualBox User Manual referred to in the message tells you what to do (in Section 2.3.4); and 'yes' the action needs to be taken using Terminal in your Linux Guest VM.
Thanks. I think you mean "... in your Linux Host." Anyway, I did that, and I also checked, and my user is, indeed, a member of "vboxusers," yet I still can't see any USB devices.
I had the same problem on Ubuntu 22.04. After running the command ('sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers <username>') it is necessary to do a complete reboot of the whole machine for it to be implemented.
(It does not help that the error message directed me to a different section of the user manual 12.7.5 - which gives even less information that the error message. Maybe this needs updating/clarifying?)
Doing this got rid of the error. Hovering the mouse over the USB icon showed that my Win-32 installation was recognising the correct USB stick. Win-32 then 'pinged' and told me the device was not recognised - but at least I've now moved forward a little! Maybe this is just a windows driver problem now?
However, I also simultaneously noticed that Linux no longer acknowledged the USB stick. So, I thought I'd change USB stick and try with the screen emphasis now on Linux. This showed up fine in Linux but not in Windows. That sort of makes sense - not being able to access the same stick from two different OS's. On the other hand, I'm doing that for my HDD - so I'm not quite sure if this is the expected/correct behaviour?
Chris