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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: vboxmanage list usbhost shows 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.

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.

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

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