How to enable the use of USB ports within a Windows virtual machine using VirtualBox and as a Linux host.
In this post I will show you how to enable the use of USB ports within a Windows virtual machine using VirtualBox and as a Linux host. Sometimes we need use peripherals like old disk or any kind of strangers devices with windows virtual machines, in this case on Linux we need to create explicit user on the system for perrmit to system use usb port, with this commando we will enable a user for VirtualBox. sudo adduser $USER vboxusers Restart linux machine and go to USB on your virtual Machine and add manually the USB port selecting on the list. References: Thanks to: https://youtu.be/jPrfkJagz6k?si=z7ws3YVXZpnwFyz0