http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174406
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174406#c25
--- Comment #25 from Robin Klitscher
Thanks. As expected, the logs show a permissions problem. Finding why that happens in the code gets a bit more complicated.
Where did the VBoxSVC.log come from? I could not find that on my machine.
What is the output of 'VBoxManage list usbhost'? If that shows nothing, then run 'strace VBoxManage list usbhost >> host_list.txt 2>&1' and post host_list.txt.
As mentioned in my OP, in Leap 15.2 the command “VBoxManage list usbhost” also returns <none> when invoked as a user. But when it’s invoked as root, it returns a long list of USB devices. Circumstantially, this seemed to hint at a permissions problem. Beyond that, when I first installed Leap 15.2 about a month ago (fresh install, not an upgrade), I had a problem with the vboxusers group. Briefly, the VirtualBox installation, the command <groups> in a terminal and the YaST GUI all thought the vboxusers group was missing. Inconsistently, however, the command <groupadd> in a terminal and the content of the file /etc/groups thought it already existed. I posted this to the opensuse@opensuse.org list, and David Rankin suggested that I might try gpasswd -a robin vboxusers. I did, and it worked. I don’t know enough to know if this might be related to the USB difficulty in VirtualBox, but I wondered if it might be relevant in some way? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.