To manage usb devices with VirtualBox, remember to add your user to “vboxusers” group!
The “admin”, “adm” and “sudo” group are not enough as you can see from
# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="root", MODE="0600" SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0664" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0664"