vbox does not recognize usb devices

[mrvst]

Host: Ubuntu Mate 22.04

Guest VM: Windows 10 21h2

vbox does not recognize usb devices

[mrvst]

installation method:

sudo apt install virtualbox
sudo apt install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
sudo apt install virtualbox-ext-pack

[mrvst]

sudo apt-cache policy virtualbox
virtualbox:
  Instalados: (ninguno)
  Candidato:  6.1.32-dfsg-1build1
  Tabla de versión:
     6.1.32-dfsg-1build1 500
        500 http://co.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/multiverse amd64 Packages

[mrvst]

and problems with VBoxVNC (last image)

[mrvst]

solved (parcialy)

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER
sudo update-grub

and reboot

VBoxVNC is pending (how to uninstall and install?)

[Klaus Espenlaub]

!VBoxVNC is a 3rd party feature, so can't really comment.

The "no USB devices shown" issue is related to the vboxusers group (has nothing to do with update-grub whatsoever), and it is documented for a very long time in the manual: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#install-linux-vboxusers

We'll see how we can remind users in the GUI sensibly, without annoying users where the admin decided that USB is not to be made available to VMs. One day.