Poking around on this forum I have a) added my user to to the vboxusers group, and ensured there was an eol at the end of that file. Neither made any difference.
There's a particular device I want to connect, but to try to make a start, I have been offering a memory stick. The stick shows up and mounts in Linux, but when I go to the guest's Devices menu, the USB sub-menu says "no devices connected". Oh, and while rather redundant given that the host mounts the stick, lsusb shows it too.
The host is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 64bit, the guest is Windows XP (yeah, I know
Any suggestions, this seems very odd and is certainly very frustrating.
TIA
Simon