[ale] usb headset and virtualbox

[Sergio Chaves]

The Ubuntu list mentions several issues like yours. The most popular answer
was to downgrade VB to 4.3.32 to get all the USB devices recognized.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Grasping at straws here...
>
> Does USB pass through require specific devices to be configured? Maybe
> thumbdrives are allowed by default and other devices need specific
> permission. No idea where to set that up.
> On Nov 19, 2015 3:49 PM, "Todor Fassl" <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anybody have any idea why a usb headset might not show up in a list of
>> devices for virtualbox? I'm running virtualbox 5.0 on ubuntu vivid. When I
>> list usb devices with 'vboxmanage list usbhost', I see my usb keyboard and
>> kvm but not my usb headset. In fact, I have 2 usb headsets plugged into the
>> machine and neither of them are listed. They both work though. I can get
>> sound from the ubuntu host through them.
>>
>> It's not the problem where you have to add yourself to the vboxusers
>> group. If you don't do that, nothing is listed when you run 'vboxmanage
>> list usbhost'. I already added myself to that group and the keyboard and
>> kvm show up.
>>
>> --
>> Todd
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