keep getting "no devices available" for USB

[reggler]

Hi,

I feel like I've tried everything after going through a number of posts and trying out various things to get this going but i still get "no devices available" after:

• upgrading to Virtual Box 6.0 (with sudo from a user shell) - the following is from /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib on my Ubuntu xenial host.
• Extension for VBox 6.0.0 installed.
• Enabled USB Controller in Settings and set it to USB 2.0 EHCI
• My user has been added to vboxusers - this is from /etc/group: vboxusers124:ron - not last line & appended an empty last line after the last group in the file
• Have rebooted
• Have logged in & out

but I still can't get it working:

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$ VBoxManage list usbhost
Host USB Devices:

<none>

while:

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$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1004:631c LG Electronics, Inc. G2/Optimus Android Phone [MTP mode]
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0483:3748 STMicroelectronics ST-LINK/V2
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c215 Logitech, Inc. Extreme 3D Pro
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

How can I get this going?
Download VBox.log.zip from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jp_SPf ... sp=sharing

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$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial
ron@regDesktopHome:~$ uname -a
Linux regDesktopHome 4.4.0-141-generic #167-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 10:40:15 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[socratis]

Enabled USB Controller in Settings and set it to USB 2.0 EHCI

Umm... not quite, that's USB 3 that you have enabled:

00:00:02.209187 [/Devices/usb-xhci/0/LUN#0/] (level 4)
00:00:02.209189   Driver <string>  = "VUSBRootHub" (cb=12)

I feel like I've tried everything after going through a number of posts

Try this one: 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. Except of course the ones you've already posted...

[reggler]

I started virtualbox as root (with sudo) and that let's me select my USB device!

[socratis]

Then you're not in the proper group. This is definitely not something that should be marked as [Solved], not even close.

Running VirtualBox as admin/root is strongly discouraged!
Please address the issue properly, not by "hacking"...