How To Enable VirtualBox USB Support On Ubuntu

9/1/2011

While using VirtualBox you may get this error “Failed to access the USB subsystem.
VirtualBox is not currently allowed to access USB devices. You can change this by adding your user to the 'vboxusers' group. Please see the user manual for a more detailed explanation.” to fix this you must add yourself to the vboxusers group.

To fix that error follow these steps:

1: Enter this into the terminal, gpasswd -a 'yourusername' vboxusers
2: Logout of your account then log back in.
3: Open up VirtualBox and USB support should be enable. Sellect the USB drive like you would on Windows.

5 Comments

han

12/8/2012 01:46:16 am

i had to add SUDO to the front for it to work..
like: sudo gpasswd -a blome57 vboxusers

Earnest Redwood

6/9/2013 05:55:45 am

Thank you for the Tip, This was the answer I needed.

Maria Lawrence link

9/20/2013 04:07:50 pm

Thank you.. it worked! Just what i was looking for!

cyrus

9/20/2013 04:55:34 pm

thank you very much ... it worked.

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How To Enable VirtualBox USB Support On Ubuntu

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