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   David W. Hodgins to Paul   
   Re: vBox NO usb passthrough was..Re: gx-   
   23 Feb 24 08:45:49   
   
   From: dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 03:03:30 -0500, Paul  wrote:   
      
   > In Host:   
   >   
   >    sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers bullwinkle      # Add "vboxusers" to my   
   username "bullwinkle" account   
      
   Ahh. I forgot that part. It's been a while since I created a new installation.   
      
   >    cat /etc/group                               # Bullwinkle should show up   
   in the vboxusers entry   
   >    groups                                       # My logged in account   
   bullwinkle, should show the group   
   >                                                 # but as long as the   
   previous command looks OK, carry on.   
   >   
   > Reboot. I suspect some Vbox daemon needs to   
   > do something, to finish the job. You can't just   
   > exit the Virtualbox panel and enter again,   
   > and have the USB subsystem picked up. It   
   > takes a reboot.   
      
   Reboot is not needed. Just logout/in for the user's group changes to take   
   effect.   
      
   > It's a good thing, on my Linux multiboot disk, there   
   > were two OSes with VBox installed, one working,   
   > one broken. I did the above to the broken one and   
   > it's working now.   
      
   Glad it's working.   
      
   Regards, Dave Hodgins   
      
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