[WorksForMe] USB device not seen by virtualbox 6.1

[JimA]

I had this working years ago and I'm trying to recreate it again since the need has arisen.

My Host is Ubuntu 18.04 and Virtualbox is 6.1.

I have an old application that reads and writes to a specialty USB Card reader associated with a Brother Embroidery machine. Their software will run on a WinXP machine so I'm trying to setup a virtual WinXP.

However the USB device is not recognized.

On the host machine lspci shows:

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Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f9:2100 Brother Industries, Ltd Card Reader Writer

vboxmanage list usbhost shows

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Host USB Devices:

<none>

When I created the WinXP virtual machine I restored from a save image .OVA file and it already had a USB filter for the card writer. But that still didn't allow it to recognized.

[socratis]

If the "VBoxManage list usbhost" shows nothing, you need to add yourself to the "vboxusers" group and verify your membership with the "id" command, after a logout or a reboot.

For more information read the following thread: USB basics and troubleshooting, all of the posts.

[JimA]

adding my user to the vboxusers group solved the problem after a reboot
Thanks

[socratis]

Glad I could help. Marking as [WorksForMe], it's in the User Manual after all...