Bug ID 1222186
Summary VirtualBox not allowed to access USB devices although user is in vboxusers group
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Tumbleweed
Version Current
Hardware Other
OS openSUSE Tumbleweed
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component Virtualization:Other
Assignee virt-bugs@suse.de
Reporter timothyadams@ymail.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
Target Milestone ---
Found By ---
Blocker ---

Since DUPing this morning to the big 20240329 Tumbleweed snapshot (re
CVE-2024-3094), I have again lost USB passthrough to scanners in my Win 7 VM in
Virtualbox 7.14.  

In the ~/.config/VirtualBox/VBoxSVC.log, I see many instances of:

-----------

00:00:11.669981 nspr-5   WARNING [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
aIID={e54f6256-97a7-4947-8a78-10c013ddf4b8} aComponent={HostWrap}
aText={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}, preserve=true aResultDetail=0

-----------

However, the user already was in the vboxusers group!

I also see that while logged in as user, I can't see the contents of
/dev/vboxusb.  The directory is shown as locked, and belonging to vboxusers.

Troubleshooting steps taken so far:

* Remove user from vboxusers, reboot, add user back to vboxusers, reboot.  It
didn't help.

* Uninstall the VirtualBox extension pack, reboot, re-install the extension
pack, reboot.  This also didn't help.

I'm not 100% certain that this problem appeared only with the 20240329
snapshot.    I haven't used the scanners in a few days, might have DUPd to an
earlier snapshot in the meantime.


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