USB flash drive no longer detected by VirtualBox

[el_gallo_azul]

I never used to have this problem. I haven't used VirtualBox for some months. Today, my intention was to create a boot disk for the Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool using Windows XP, because two previous attempts creating (a) a boot disk; and (b) a boot USB drive from Linux have not been successful. I thought that perhaps using all the Windows software to create the boot disk from http://www.tcsscreening.com/files/users ... index.html might help it along a bit.

Unfortunately, I wasn't even able to capture the USB drive this time using the same method I have always used to capture a USB device in VirtualBox.

Now I'll see if I can work out how to get the screenshots into this post.

1. The flash drive is mounted in Linux.


2. What happens when I try to capture the flash drive in VirtualBox.


3. What happens when I hover over the "USB device" icon in VirtualBox.


I opened another VirtualBox client to make sure that it wasn't just this client that is playing up. The same thing happened in the Android 4.3 client as well.

[Perryg]

None of you images made it. Post the guests log file as an attachment.

[el_gallo_azul]

I noticed that thumbnails didn't appear for the images, but if you right click where the image should be and "Copy image address" the URL is correct.

I attach the current log file.

[Perryg]

Do you see your user name in the vboxusers group on the host when you type id in the terminal?

[el_gallo_azul]

It doesn't look like it.

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el_gallo_azul@W2600CR-850Pro:~$ id
uid=1000(el_gallo_azul) gid=1000(el_gallo_azul) groups=1000(el_gallo_azul),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),108(lpadmin),124(sambashare),127(boinc)
el_gallo_azul@W2600CR-850Pro:~$

How do I get it in there?

I imagine that it always used to be there, and maybe my recent distribution upgrade didn't work 100%, as I thought it had for the first time in my life.

[Perryg]

In a host terminal run this:

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sudo usermod -aG vboxusers <your username>

Replace <your username> with the name you use to log in. Type your user password when prompted.


Be sure to log off and back in to finalize the change in permissions

[el_gallo_azul]

Yep that worked.

Thanks!