Add User to Vboxusers Group in Linux Mint to access USB devices - Franks Helpdesk 

Took two days of searching google before I found your video. You have never steered me wrong, man. Thanks for all the help.

Hello, Frank, and thank you for this useful tip. I entered the command into the terminal and, when I checked 'groups' again, I was still not finding an entry for 'vboxusers'. I decide to shut down and go and have a cup of tea while I thought about what I had done incorrectly, but on starting my computer again, and then checking 'groups' once more, I found that I now had 'vboxusers' added! I don't know much about Linux and am still feeling my way, but I think you ought to include a reminder to restart after this little mod in order for it to take effect. I love your channel -- I'm learning lots from it. Thanks again.

Clear and easy to understand. Look forward to future vids.

This fixed my issue. Thanks so much. Such a stupid little thing to have to do but if you don't know to do it or how to do it is a pretty significant aggravation. It would be nice if virtual Box explained this when you click the "?" near the USB error. I connect to USB drive with VirtualBox on Windows with no problem and I don't have to go through this crap.

Short and to the point. Nice.

im a little confused. do you do this on the host OS, the one hosting virtualbox, or the guest os inside of virtualbox, Im o windows, as the host, with virtualbox inside,, and serveral distros of linus including windows inside. does this fix only work for a linux host?, or do you have to do this in every guest os inside of virtual box?

Thanks man! Only video I found that helped

you are a life-saver!!! thank you so much!!!

amazing! Problem solved very easy! Edit: I had to made a new start after the adding. Then the terminal shows me in the vboxusers-group and then the usb started to work! THANK YOU!!!

Works and was very easy to do. Thank you for this.

Your video was a great help, thank you very much.

Worked on my Ubuntu host with Windows 10 as the guest OS.

Great thanks Frank, that did the trick!

It worked! Thanks!

Brilliant!Thanks a lot!

Thank you so much

Thanks you!

Seems kind of dumb that you have to do this at all. I don't see the purpose of VirtualBox requiring the host user to be in a special group just to attach a USB drive to a guest OS. I don't see how this significantly improves security and it just makes VirtualBox that much harder to use on Linux.

Another useless video that shows linux fixes and not windows.