The latest 7.0.18 is correct and allows vboxusers to access USB Is your USB setup in the virtual machine enabled - It has to be to access the USB. the output ownership should look like this: user1@LLR1:~> ll /dev/vb* crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 122 May 21 10:06 /dev/vboxdrv crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 121 May 21 10:06 /dev/vboxdrvu crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 120 May 21 10:06 /dev/vboxnetctl /dev/vboxusb: total 0 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 120 May 22 06:53 001 drwxr-x--- 2 root vboxusers 80 May 21 10:06 002 user1@LLR1:~>